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** – Americans seeing racism as evil, more determination for equality, and new resources made the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever.

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) ** **Tweet** – After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, people boycotted the segregated buses.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended segregation in Montgomery buses, led to the founding of the SCLC, and made Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famous.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Arkansas decided not to integrate their schools, so members of the National Guard took some African Americans in Little Rock to school.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – Many whites in the South began to oppose and fight against desegregation.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Some African Americans sat in a segregated lunch counter and ordered coffee, and were abused by others there. It led to the formation of the SNCC and desegregation of many lunch counters.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The SNCC was a organization that organized students into nonviolent protests for civil rights.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** African Americans sat in the fronts of interstate buses in the South and tried to use "whites only" facilities at bus terminals.

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Children came together and marched to protest segregation in Birmingham.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – Birmingham officials desegregated lunch counters, removed segregation signs, and employed more African Americans in stores. Also, the nation became stunned by reactions to the protests.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – Many groups that wanted to pass civil rights laws came together, and support for civil rights grew.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation was banned in public places and job discrimination was abolished.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – Freedom Summer was a program organized to register more black voters in the South in 1964.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – The Voting Rights Act banned laws that stopped blacks from being able to register to vote, including literacy tests.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – Many people marched from Selma to Montgomery to protest for full African American voting rights. The march became very violent, but the President Johnson sent troops to protect the march.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – President Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a result of the march, which banned literacy tests and other things that could restrict blacks from being able to vote.

<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** – Johnson's Great Society was a program that tried to rid the world of poverty, end discrimination, promote education, and protect the environment.

<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** – Whites in the North discriminated against blacks, and opposed desegregation. This led to riots breaking our in the North,

<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** – African Americans had little political power or economic opportunity, and Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, which began to break up the movement.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Malcolm X thought all races should be able to live together in peace.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – The Black Panther party was more aggressive and violent than previous civil rights groups and carried around loaded weapons, and many of their leaders ended up being killed.