Civil+Right+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** – US citizens believe Hitler's racism was evil, AA's have more resources to fight with, USCT in WWII created fighting power **Tweet** – black protest of bus systems led by King Jr., challenging of Montgom. Bus Segregation Law, Blacks and Whites up front? Things might turn ugly! **Tweet** - resistance against integration following Brown case, govoner of Arkansas didn't let AA's go to school for 3 weeks after law. **What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – 4 black college students began sitting in at lunch counters, the effective protest tactic spread across the nation. **Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) increased pressure for change
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**

 **Tweet – **  blacks would sit in front, whites in back to protest against segregated busses, much opposition and beatings towards freedom riders **Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – 1/4 million people marched into DC and listened to King Jr give his I Have A Dream speech. **Tweet** – Banned Segregation in public places and created the EEOC to prevent job discrimination, Will the EEOC work? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Freedom Summer was a black voter-registration drive, bombings, beatings, arrests and murder were endured to add over 1,200 registered black voters. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Banned literary tests, and other laws that tried to stop AA's from voting. What will southern whites think of this? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – voter-registration drive had a march to Montgomery, protesters met state troopers on horseback at a bridge at the edge of Selma and were attacked, the force made pressure for federal action.** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Pres Johnson told Governor Wallace of Alabama no more violence, he also sent troops to protect the Mongtomery march. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – GS helped those who were stripped of their rights, pushed for integrated education and voting rights <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Chicago rejected all attempts made by the SCLC to integrate public facilities <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – progress is slowed by the killings of King Jr and Malcolm X
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">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** – firehoses were used to stop nonviolent protesters in Burmingham, nationwide horror leads to desegregated lunch counters, removed segregation signs and employ more AA's.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**
 * What was Freedom Summer?**
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**