CRM+Tweets

Civil Rights Movement TWEETS

So many events in the Civil Rights Movement – imagine if you were present at all of them! How would you communicate the basic information of each major event quickly and concisely? Well, if we could send some technology back in time, maybe you could “tweet” your way through the Movement.

In this activity, you will report about various events, people, and organizations using Twitter as a model. In case you don’t know, Twitter is a social networking site that allows people to keep up with each other by posting messages of “tweets” that are no more than 140 characters in length. Over the next few days, you will use Chapter 29 and [|ABC-CLIO] to post “tweets” about the events, individuals, and ideas listed below. This will serve as your Civil Rights Era study guide! Cut and paste the material below into a new page on your Unit 8 Online Notebook, and tweet away. Make sure your tweets are comlpete and cover a great deal about the topic ... but are limited in size! Don't worry too much - 140 is just a ballpark figure.

**Tweet** – //** Plessey overturned by SC, separate is not equal, schools must desegregate “with all deliberate speed”, should lead 2 more – bye bye Jim Crow? Will be some opposition! **// (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!)
 * EXAMPLE TWEET – Why was Brown v. Board important?**

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – The Brown V. Board made every one a lot more open minded.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks did not give up her seat. Many were arrested for protesting, MLK was arrested. The year after rosa parks was arrested, the bus boycott was marked unconstitutional and illegal.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Governor called state militia to get rid of the AA students at the school. Integration was legal. The 9 black students escorted to school. 1 year later all public schools in Lil Rock closed.
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – Civil disobedience was also known as breaking a law you thought was unjust, take the punishment.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – SNCC stand for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee. Formed by sucess of sit ins, supported by young people.


 * Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">They were protest against segregation on interstate busing in the south. AA's sat in the front and refused to move, the segregation said they had to sit in the back. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – The citys public safter commissioner was likely to use violence to stop protesters. Segregationists attacking nonviolent protesters had increased the pressure for change. Began April 1963

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 250,000 took part on it during Aug, 28 1963. United many groups that supported Civil Rights laws.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It Banned segregation in public places, also Created EEOC. EEOC prevented job discrimination.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Organized by SNCC, it was a voter-registration for southern blacks.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Banned literacy tests and banned laws that kept blacks from registering to vote. Increased AA VR dramatically.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A march that lasted for 5 days, from Selma Alabama to Montgomery. Due to Whites resisting to Black voter registration. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a result he signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 into law.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provided a series of programs to disenfranchise the poor, elderly, and women. Promotes education ands discrimination and protects the environment.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SCLC had joined protesters in chicago, there were no CR laws against discrimination on blacks. Whites would not sell property in specific areas to AA's. White employers refused profoundly to hire blacks. This frustrated the blacks which led to a lot of riots.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The civil rights progress was very slow for AAs, but it encouraged CRM for other groups that were oppressed
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**