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 (I'm sure you do, from your friendly English teacher), 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, videos, 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 complete and cover a great deal about the topic ... but are limited in size! Don't worry too much - 140 is just a ballpark figure.

**EXAMPLE TWEET – Why was Brown v. Board important?** **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!)

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – The Jim Crow laws which enforced segregation through out the country made African Americans fight for Civil Rights.

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) ** **Tweet** – Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus and was arrested. A.A's boycotted the bus system and posed signs saying not to go on the bus. They were violently beat but handled the situation peacefully.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – Martin Luther King becomes the face of the Civil Rights Movement and buses become integrated because segregated buses were unconstitutional.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – 9 A.A's attended a white school. There were many fights and A.A's were beaten. Troops stopped the violence.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – ﻿Many A.A's contiued to attend white schools and continued to be beaten. Many people also protested

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – A.A's sat at a white lunch counter and were arrested. It got lots of attention and protesters were attacked. Protesters did not fight back but were still arrested. Nashville desegregated public facilities.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC was created on the campus of Shaw Universityto coordinate sit-ins to fight for Civil Rights.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** May 4th buses carried black and white volunteers into forbidden territory in the deep south. Bus were attacked. President wanted them to stop but they continued. Troops were sent to restore order.

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Children are sent to protest. Parents find this easier because if they get arrested the family income does not get effected. Many children are attacked and put in jail.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – Birmingham provided momentum for the March on Washington and paved the way for passage of the Civil Rights act.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – People come from everywhere to Washington D.C. Whites are scared and troops are sent. Four people arrested, all of them white. It shows how peaceful the Civil Rights Movement is.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including segregation.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿People traveled to mississippi to regester A.A. voters. They could vote but they had to pass impossible tests. Johnson lost voters in the South.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ The Voting Rights act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – ﻿People marched from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965. Many people were beaten.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Johnson responds by passing the Voting Rigths Act or 1965.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet**– P rogramst to help women, the poor and the elderly. Promoted education, protecting the environment, and ending discrimination

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet**– Civil rights were in the North but A.A's were still discriminated, could not get jobs. Protests in chicago made few changes.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet**– Mad because no political power or opportunities. This lead to riots and MLK assassinated.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet**– Did not like Islamic separatism, viewed a world where races could live peacefully, were assassinated by Islams

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet**– M ilitant, served poor, made newspapers, many had been arrested in a raid in 1969