Civil+Rights+Movement+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** – Est. of NAACP and its actions. + After WW2, more Americans see racism= bad because it was associated with Hitler. AA's fought war for European freedom, and wanted freedom in US too, which more Americans agreed with.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – MLK AND MIA led bus boycott that was inspired by Rosa P. AAs didn't ride buses. Hard to do b/c they had to walk. SC ruled bus segregation was illegal.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Schools want2 integrate. 9 AA students to attend LRHS.Opposed by mob+ Governor ordered National Guard to protect school from Little Rock 9. Some whites ran out when 9 secretly entered. 9 were withdrawn to avoid violence. Pres. Eisenhower mad, sent troops to escort 9to HS.
 * 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** – 4 AAs refused service @ lunch counter. They sat there until closing. Effective sit-in method spread across South.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Est. to organize sit-ins and make the integration efforts of AA's better known.


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

**Tweet – **  Protest of segregated buses. AA's sat in whites only sections. Freedom riders were dealt with violently. Became national news.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – SCLC led protests. Birmingham police attempted to end protests. Tons arrested+ AAs attacked by dogs, billy clubs and power hoses almost all AA's didnt retalite. Made national news. Resulted in desegregation of lunch counters, bathrooms, water fountains+ businesses hire fairly+ more deseg.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – 200k people went to DC to campign for civil rights bill, national school desegregation, higher minimum wage. MLK delievered "I Have a Dream" speech. Showed gov. action was necessary.

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

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Program for black voter registration, despite adversity. 1200 added to voter registration.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Banned literacy tests and other measures to prevent blacks from voting. Black voter registration increased.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Blacks and whites march against oposition to end discriination and segregation. Resisted violence and verbl abuse.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**



Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Enacted new laws of intolerance towards segregation and racial partiality in regards to job opportunities.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – A program to help the poor, elderly, and women. Also laws to further help our society.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Many protests against desegregation. Wanted to end discrimination and lack of economic opportunity and political power.
 * 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** – People began ro reject non-violence and working together with whites. Wanted blacks to form several all-black organizations.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**