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** –
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – bus boycott- Parks arrested, her church mmbrs protest, led by mlk. 13 mnths. bus segregation law unconstitutional- racial tension?
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – nine blacks enroll @ Centrl High Skool, ppl try 2 block integration, national guard turns them away- elizabeth eckford-try 2 lynch her-racial tension-integrate
 * 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** – sit in @ lunch counter, don't move til they get what they want-by thurs. 100 protesters-blacks were abused-integrate lunch counter- good outcome

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet –** Protests against segregation about buses- blacks sit in front and wouldn't move-ppl were abused no matter who u were
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –integrate public places- expose evils of segregation- pressure 4 change- children hurt- desegragation & integration

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – i hav a dream speech- civil rites leaders 4 many issues- president kennedy provided support

**Tweet** – no more segregation in public places- equal employment- segregation illegal- tho it's illegal will it continue?
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

**Tweet** – voter-registration drive for Southern blacks, participants abused, prez says no more violence & stops protesters -led to Voting Rights Act
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – ban literacy tests & other laws, many blacks could now vote, raised 10-60%
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – protest about segregation- 3 marches- participants abused- RACIAL TENSION- senate approved VRA- enforce 15th amendment
 * 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** – now people r going to b segregationalists, others will b integrationalists, racial tension, diff people will fight for diff things
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**