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** – Blacks thought that they deserved something for serving in WW2 so they became more active. Also new leaders like MLK stepped up and helped African Americans get their equal rights.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – There was the bus boycott. Mr. Luther King Jr. was the president of it. This boycott made M.L.K. known and the civil rights movement spread to other places. It was successful and bus segregation was outlawed.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Nine black students were chosen to go to a white school. The students were willing to linch the students so they were removed from the school. Soon after, the military helped escort the nine black students in the school and 8 of the 9 were successful there. "The Little Rock Nine".
 * 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** – Blacks started sitting at all white restaurants, sit-ins. Soon after that, segregation in restaurants was not permitted. Non violence was extremely successful.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – In 1960 a group of college students sat at an only white table and refused to leave until they were served. They took their punishment, but it spread the sit- ins through other colleges.


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

**Tweet – ** Black and white protesters would go on buses and travel throughout the south. Many of the buses got torched and protesters did die. Interstate segregation on buses was outlawed. 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Birmingham was one of the most segregated cities in the nation. Many protesters marched into down town Birmingham. There were a lot of arrests. More protesters kept coming and the authorities used violence. People were beaten and some even killed. Then the children came and protests. The protesters got their wish.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #f03333; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1963. It was a large civil rights march through D.C. and at the Washington Monument. The big six gave speeches, one was inlcuding MLK's "I have a dream". The march was to get blacks jobs.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was made by JFK, but he was assignated. So London Johnson singed it into law. The act ended all segregation and discrimination in public places. July 2, 1964 (also the peak of Motown Records!)
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Before the civil rights act only 6.7 percent of blacks were voting in Mississippi because of white peoples threats. Freedom Summer was a movement that incouraged blacks to vote. To do so civil rights organizations brought many whtie college students to the south.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This act out lawed the practice of discrimitory voting. Many people in the south were not allowing blacks to vote because of their threats. The act was signed by London B. Johnson.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Martin Luther King lead a march from Selma to Montgomery. They went to Selma because the voting of blacks was at only 2%. At Montgomery it was very violent again and marchers and police wer injured. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #161313; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In result to the Selma March London B. Johnson urged the Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and he was succesfull. This act outlawed discrimitory voting.
 * <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. **

<span style="color: #f03d3d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #151313; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The assasignation of JFK allowed Johnson to step up and prove to America that he was a worthy president. He did just that by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The movement integrated the housing in Chicago. Since Chicago was one of the most segregated cities the civil rights movement focused on it quite a bit.
 * 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: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Young activists stopped protesting and MLK was assasignated.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**