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** – Americans c racism as evil cuz dats how Hitler got power, sum blacks fought in Europe 4 freedom, so they want it in USA, blacks begin to move to cities to work also!
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa wudnt stand up 4 white, bus boycott starts, city bus start losing $, tough policy on boycotters, supreme court says buses r illegal, SCLC forms, MLK becomes famous
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – high skool was 2 integrate, governer refused 4 3 weeks, Ike makes him obey law, calls in 101st airborne into LR, 9 kids r allowed into skool, encouraged civil rights  **Tweet** – 4 college kids do a sit-in at lunch counter store, order coffee, waitress wudnt serve them, protest grew and grew, forced store to serve blacks, SNCC forms as result
 * 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?**

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights 

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Tweet – whites sit in back, blacks in front wudnt move and tried to use white facilities at terminals, sometimes blacks were attacked **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * <span style="color: rgb(64,64,64);"> What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">MLK arrested, SCLC recruits kids for marches, police use dogs and firehoses on them people across USA see it Bir. makes big changes involving segregation <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">

**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 to push for civil rights

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – act to enforce the right and protect people from discrimination
 * 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** – A voter-registration drive for Southern blacks organized by the SNCC
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 1st national to say that all americans have the right to vote and made sure states cldnt pass voting laws not approved of by the federal govt.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – people marched to protest segregation in alabama... president protected the marchers with troops
 * 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** – things to help people get better lives like programs to promote social equality then economic fairness. made a speech to congress known as the great society... modeled by FDR's new deal
 * 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** – programs were not what people thought they were but just linked to civil rights and many whites were unhappy about this
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**