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** – NAACP help African Americans get equal rights. Legal action-segregation slowly leaving. Public school case won! Standing up for themselves. Racism evil, want freedom after war, prosperous A.A. evil. Want freedom at home after war. A.A. succeeding in cities.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet**– Parks arrested for sit-in- blacks mad. Bus boycott to end segregation. MLK spoke- well known now. Lasted 13 months. Bus segregation unconstitutional.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – segregation resistance. central high school black enrollment. children protected going to school- one student mobbed my angry whites who were mad about her attending white school.
 * 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** – Energized C.R. activists. Sit-in in N.C. 4 college student protest. many protesters for desegregation. people mean to students. SNCC formed. Success- less segregation! civil disobedience- peaceful objection to unjust law

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee- young people wanting desegregation. Civil rights movement put pressure for changes.

 **Tweet – Protests against segregation in south- sit-ins---try to get in trouble. Zwerg beat unconscious. Protest helped A.A's win civil rights. Blacks and whites getting together to regulate interstate travel, lead to ban on segregation in interstate travel. ** 
 * Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –Birmingham, major segregation and struggle for rights. Many marches and demonstrations ensued; many arrested. Whites soon give in and desegregate, but tensions don’t end, SCLC is bombed, JFK stands up for civil rights- encourages other civil rights people, tuning point

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – In D.C.- I have a dream- united groups for civil rights changes. Kennedy supported- 250,000 people marched

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – signed into law- 1964- banned public segregation in public. Prevents against job discrimination. segregation is now illegal.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – organization, wanted to keep motivation for the blacks to fight for rights, helped blacks- violence soon broke out, people were killed and blacks lost hope, but it showed people the awful treatment of blacks
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Voting rights bill- banned literacy test keeping blacks from voting- federal officials register voters- more black voters- positive step
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – march was 1 of 3- protesters marched 54 miles with help of AL toops. helped pass voting rights act sooner
 * 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** – sent 4,000 AL National Troops to help marchers

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – provided programs helping poor, elderly and women. Promoted freedom and education. Programs still today like Medicare. New federal money for education. Env. laws.
 * 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 for discr. but rather discrimination against A.A's. Midwesterns unwelcomed desegregation. Many riots. MLK assasinated.
 * 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** – Movement starts dividing and making all black power, kicking the whites out.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**