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** – Other people began to support; there were earlier actions that set them up for protests.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks didnt give up her seat @ the front of the bus to white person; started civil rights movement.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 black high schoolers went to school cause they were aloud 2 cause of brown vs board; they got stopped by national guard, which was against the constitution.
 * 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 black protesters do sit-in to desegregate lunch counters; started wide-spread protests on public grounds.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – ** Black prostesters would block segregated highways in attempts to segregate them. <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * <span style="color: rgb(64,64,64); font-family: Arial;">What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Birmingham was very segregated city; protests happened, they quickly got very violent. They did get the civil rights movement really going; people started to realize what was going on.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – People of all races marched to Washington DC, pushing for bills to pass that gave higher wages and desegregated schools. It showed the government that something needed to be done.

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – It pretty much desegregated the US (to a certain extent.) Desegregated schools, public areas, etc.
 * 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** – US launched; try to get as many blacks to register to vote as possible
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Guaranteed voting rights for all Americans
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – It was a march from selma to montgomery that was aimed at the desegregation of Alabama. what happened?
 * 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** – They were bills that were passed to help lower the amount of racial injustice and ....
 * 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** – Many of the young activists that were supporting the movement began to drift away.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**