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.

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** – The Brown vs. The Board, March on Washington, and the NAACP working to help African Americans acheive equality, with as little violence as possible.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – There was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the 1st major civil rights event, where Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on the bus to a white person, this was against the law and she was later arrested. Causing a large uproar.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – People were working on integrating Central High School in Little Rock. When 9 black children tried to enter they were blocked, Dwight Eisenhower deemed this disgraceful.
 * 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** – A group of four African Americans sat in at Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's lunch counter, by doing this it caused many other sit ins by other African Americans around the country.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet –** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Freedom Rides were groups of people who traveled on buses in the South demanding for desegregation.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">African Americans decided to boycott the "white only" restaurants, as a result many were arrested, and even a crowd was attacked by the police and a police dog! <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The March on Washington was a gathering of thousands of people of different races led by Civil Rights leaders. It changed the way the public looked on the Civil Rights movement. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Civil Rights Act of 1964 dealt with many deals of discrimination, but mainly focused on voting and segregation.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The Freedom Summer was a drive to spread the ability for African Americans to vote all across the entire country.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the first act ever passed (by Lyndon B. Johnson) to allow all Americans the right to vote.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The March from Selma to Montgomery was a march to stop Segregation in Alabama. It was the 3rd march that took place in Selma.
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Lyndon B Johnson proposed a set of programs, which were targeted on eliminating poverty and racial injustice. This will help the movement because it shows the president wants it to stop.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The movement started to not only include African Americans, but Native Americans, women, and many other minority groups.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**