Civil+Right's+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** –  African Americans using nonviolence and civil disobedience.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Many African American citizens in Montgomery protesting against bus system- Montgomery Bus Boycott- segregation in buses now illegal- Martin Luther King Jr. rises
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Nine students in Little Rock were going to be first to integrate Central High- governor did not like this and police had to stop mobs of people.
 * 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 began sit-ins where they remained seated until served- 70,00 people began sit-ins, both white and black- this integrated lunch counters

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Organization for young people, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was formed because of sit-ins


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

**Tweet – **  Black and whites would do from Washington DC to Jackson to protest for integrated buses. Whites and blacks would be arrested for riding together.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Black kids protested about segregation and many got arrested including King. Kids were put in jail and blacks were sprayed with hoses, gassed, and beaten- pushed for civil rights
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.**
 * Tweet – ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ended at the Lincoln mermorial, King gave "I have a Dream" speech. President Kennedy promised support for civil rights.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Kennedy was assassinated so Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act- no discrimination for jobs and no segregation in public places.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – volunteers helped 1,200 African Americans register for voting. The volunteers endured bombing, arrests, murder, and beatings.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Literacy tests and other tests to prevent blacks from registering to vote are now banned. Federal officials were sent to register voters.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - African Americans voting in Selma increased from 10 to 60% because of the Voting Right's Act and officials sent to register voters. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**
 * 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** – Marchers from Selma were attacked from state troopers on horseback. The president sent troops to protect it and the march continued.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – He made a series of programs that would help the poor, elderly, and women. It also promoted education, end discrimination, and help the environment.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Blacks went north because whites refused to sell property and hire blacks in the north and there were protests which did nothing. King was assassinated.
 * 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** – Civil rights progress came slowly for African Americans but encouraged civil rights movements amoung other oppressed groups.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**