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.

**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** – The African Americans victory in and during the Brown V. Board Act in which led for much more success with their efforts.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Before MLK was a minister, after this he became a Civil Rights leader. Rosa Parks refused to get up for a white man, she was arrested and started a huge boycott of buses by blacks and because of this the segregation on buses was outlawed.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 black students enrolled in a school, and the mayor ordered the militia to keep the blacks out of the school, but the court ordered school desegregation.
 * 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 defied the law by eating and sitting in a white restaurant and it soon grew to 40,000 resulting in desegregation of restaurants.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** –  Was an organization created in 1960 to protest against segregation and demand equal civil rights. The organization embraced non violent petitioning strategies.


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

**Tweet – **  Whites and Blacks traveled together in buses to try to stop interstate travel segregation.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – **It was the most segregated city in the US, 1000 people marched down to downtown Birmingham, they were arrested then more and more people joined them, eventually the police used violence but federal gov came in and gave the African Americans what they were asking for.**

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – In August of 1963 thousands of people marched to Washington D.C. led by civil rights advocates, and petitioned against segregation and demonstrated for civil rights.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Was an act passed to protect and enforce right to vote and a few other rights, originally passed to protect the rights of African Americans but was later used by a number of groups to protect against discrimination.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – campaigns main focus was to expand the voter registration drive, led to an important <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;"> **confrontation at the Democratic National Convention** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">President Johnson sent what would later evolve into the Voting Rights Act to Congress which would guarantee full voting rights to all Americans. The president sent it due to the fact that previously and during the time southern states used a variety of means to deny African Americans the privilege to vote.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This was a demonstration by civil rights protesters, there had already been two failed attempts of this march. The third effort was successful, Protesters walked from Selma to Montgomery. Tear gas and violent assaults were used in order to stop the crowd.
 * 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** – President Johnson responded 4 days later by assembling 4000 Alabama National Guards to protect the marchers on there journey and to provide any help necessary for their protection.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

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 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

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 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**