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 (I'm sure you do, from your friendly English teacher), 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, videos, 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 complete and cover a great deal about the topic ... but are limited in size! Don't worry too much - 140 is just a ballpark figure.

**EXAMPLE TWEET – 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 be some opposition! **// (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!)

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – Dislike against racism and WWII compel to try to get their own freedom!

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) ** **Tweet** – Blacks had unfair limitations, so they didn't ride!

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – attracted national attention to unfairness in South, made MLK famous

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – nine black children were allowed into an all-white school, got tormented, and the US military stepped in and defended them!

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – people finally started rebelling against the norm for what they believed to be right, and it was centered around the south

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – four black students sat at a white lunch counter, starting lots of lunch-counter sit-ins through the south.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee - youngsters defending their rights!

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – blacks and whites rode through South together, attracted lots of attention(most from the wrong sources)**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – children were hired to help with revolution, but got arrested! Eventually turned to violence.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – We got attention from the President, but many children were assaulted and arrested too.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – After MLK gave his speech Kennedy promises to help pass Civil Rights Laws - but gets assassinated for it!

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – After Kennedy dies, Lyndon Johnson passes an act as quickly as he can that desegregates public buildings and promises equal job oppurtunities.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – since it was still hard for blacks to vote, they organized a drive called Freedom Summer to get Blacks to join voting registration.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – After lots of complaints, Johnson passes an act that bans literacy tests and makes it possible for almost anyone to vote.

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – Civil rights leaders decide to take things into their own hands and spread Civil Rights the way they want to after the murder of an activist

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – We got the Voting RIghts Act passed, guaranteeing voting rights no matter what your literacy.

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – a series of programs that establish "a great socitety, ending poverty and raicial justice" helps movement by promising equality

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement]<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**).** **Tweet** – King and SCLC decide to join protests in Chicago to spread the movement and suppress violence

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – After the death of MLK, people are outraged and start rioting, killing each other and giving up on working with whites while others are like, "keep it peaceful!"

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Initially was against integration, but went to Saudi Arabia and saw races cooperating, decided to join the peaceful struggle, but was gunned down by members of his former party.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet -** Thety were a new political party that abandoned the ideas of peace and went for their freedom with violence.