CRMtweets

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** – Martin Luther King Jr. becomes a leader of the Civil Rights movement.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – There was a boycott of the Mongtomery Bus system, led by Martin Luther King Jr. this led ot a desegragation of the bust system and brought MLK to national attention.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 students were selected to be integrated but whites declined it. This made Black Citizens mad and they stood outside the school.
 * 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** – Four local students from the area refused to leave a segragated lunch counter until they were served. This led to over 70,000 people contributing to this movement, and led to the desegragation of lunch counters in over 200 cities.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** –


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

** Tweet – It was a group of black and white protesters that rode on the same busses in interstate traffic. Despite the violence and aggression shown to them they achieved there goal and ended segregated interstate traffic.**
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – It desegregated Birmingham, and it drew worldwide focus and pressure on the U.S to push for the civil rights bill.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – All the civil rights leaders banned together to march on washington were hundreds of thousands of peaple came to protest. This would get the U.S gov to push for the civil rights bill. **Tweet** –A federal act that banned segragtion of public facilaties.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

**Tweet** – A summer were civil rights leaders pushed for black voter registration.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

**Tweet** – This outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests for voters wich had prevented many african americans from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

**Tweet** – They were walking from selma to montgomery protesting for rights, they were met with large violence.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** **Tweet** – He started to push the voting rightsact throught congress.

**Tweet** – He created a system were the goverment was more involved in domestic affiars.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

**Tweet** –
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

**Tweet** – It is deviding in the way to gain civil rights (peaceful) or (violent) protest this would divid the nation further.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**