CRMTweets

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.

EXAMPLE – 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 b some opposition! **// (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!)

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – Brown vs. Board, desegregate all public places; Montgomery Bus Boycott, no more riding in the back; gotta' love that NAACP, envisioning a free country
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Bus boycott, bus company lost money, walking and carpooling rather than bussin', SC upheld Montgomery bus laws and made it equal
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – LR ready for integration, 9 black kids entered Central High with no intend problems, governor called in National Guard incase of violence, President thought actions at Central disgraceful, crowd dispersed
 * 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** – African Americans started sit-ins, sat at restaurant counters of whites, word spread of sit-ins, more than 50,000 in over 70 cities,

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – people rode throughout south demanding desegregation of interstate busing and transportation, CORE sponsored the majority of the rides **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Blacks meet peacefully at 16th Street Baptist Church, Eugene Bull Connor ordered police dogs onto protesters, pictures and videos of event posted on national television and nation newspapers

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – march on nation capital, tried to help push for civil rights legislation, major civil rights leaders planned to speak, 200,00 people crammed by the Lincoln memorial, I have a dream considered most famous speech ever

**Tweet** – gave AA right to vote, opportunities in equal areas of employment, prevented discrimination in federally assisted programs, equal in all public places and schools
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – large protest to get equal voting rights in Mississippi, violence made some AA give up nonviolence to arm themselves, three students murdered in Mississippi, spoke out later against <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black';">Vietnam
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – most successful civil rights legislation passed, guaranteed AA the right to vote, raise AA voting percentage from 55 to 62, authorized the use of federal voting registers to prevent states from making laws against it
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – groups of AA met (including MLK) in Selma, planned to march to capital in Montgomery, stopped when state troopers blocked their way, had successful second march, protested segregation
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** –
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** –
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**