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** – Fighting since the Civil War. Racism=evil, ww2 sparked more equality, after seeing the holocaust
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks, bus boycott. Media attention, Supreme Court said now unconstitutional. Intergration on mntgmry buses. Led to founding of SCLS. King becomes famous.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Little Rock Nine, intergration in schools starting. Encouraged others to fight for equality.
 * 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** – Greensboro sit-ins. Sitting at lunch counters. Led to the SNCC. Show nonviolence was effective.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Group that believes in nonviolence to get civil rights.


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

**Tweet – ** Protests against segregation. Whites in back, blacks in front. Tried to use "whites only" places at stops.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

Marches throught Birmingham. Recruited children. Leaders desegregated counters, hired more African Americans.
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – 250,000 people in August 1963. Ended @ Lincoln Memorial, with MLK's "I have a dream". Kennedy gave his support.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Banned segregation on public property. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Segregation=illegal.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Voter registration drive. Adding African Americans to registration rolls. Northern students in Mississippi
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – LBJ. No more literacy test to keep blacks from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Marched from Selma to Montgomery. King/SCLC. Attacked by state troopers <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – LBJ sent troops to protect the march. Would not tolerate violence.
 * 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** – Help the poor and minorities. Medicare, Medicaid. Protect environment.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – No laws against blacks, but discrimination. Chicago was still very resistent.
 * 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** – Lots of riots all over the countries. MLK assassinated, CRM in shambles.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**