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.


 * 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** **Tweet** – **Civil disobedience- nonviolent resistance even when provoke** **d! Break law, take punishment, do it again. Take consequences MANY times. **
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks on bus doesn't give seat to white man, Rosa arrested, Montgomery Bus Boycott, blacks don't ride, spreads over US, city buses integrate, Dr. King's first win-becomes face of Movement! **Tweet** – Attempts to integrate Central High School, 9 black kids to school can't get in front so they went to side entrance, only lasted for morning til 9 kids left. Went back again, Attention to integration in south now!
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**
 * 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 students sit in a white only Woolworth's, happens all over country, many lunch counters integrate afterwards!

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, college students against segregation in south!
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Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights ** **Tweet – Volunteers of CORE from north to south on buses to protest segregation in interstate busing! **  Some violence and arrests. Leads to bus integration.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Desegregation march, adults arrested and King. Kids join protest and are arrested. Police violently attack. Attack shown around world. Helps push for civil rights bill.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Desegregation activists march to DC. People start to care more and government does too!

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Law on suffrage and segregation, provides much of legal basis for Movement!
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – People from Civil Rights org.'s go to Mississippi to help blacks register to vote, still do it when threatened!
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Bans discrimination in the selling and renting of houses.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Protest segregation in Alabama, 3 marches.
 * 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** – Mobilized 4,000 Alabama Nat. Guard troops to guard marches.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 4 years of programs for social equality, expanded federal gov't, helped Americans, change ppl-gov't relationship.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Chicano activists start movement for equality, education, cultural and political liberation!
 * 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** – Some blacks wanted to use violence, others remained peaceful. BIG ARGUEMENT!
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**