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** –
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – 1956 Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up seat, influenced others to start boycotting, MLK said that all should not to take the bus, within a year African Americans sat were the pleased, segregation ended in Montgomery.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – The Little Rock Nine was formed, contained nine African American students, wanted to enter the all white high school, were force to leave due to a large mob, not a total success cause all public schools were closed the next year.
 * 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 African American students decided to sit-in a desegregated lunch counter, ordered some coffee, the waitress didn't give them coffee at all, within a week thousands of protesters took part, they forced many stores to serve African Americans.

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


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

**Tweet – ** groups of white and blacks traveled together on a city bus, whites started to join in with wanting no segregation, attacks started to happen to the buses,
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – MLK wanted to focus on Birmingham, MLK and thousand others marched through Birmingham, kids started to join the march, almost a thousand children and people were arrested, leads Birmingham to intergrate

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – 250,000 took part in a march in D.C., to build support for civil rights legislation, at Lincoln memorial MLK gave "I am a Dream" speech, united many groups to call for passage of civil rights laws, President Kennedy promised support.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The law banned segregation in public places, like hotels and restaurants and theaters, created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to prevent job discrimination, segregation was illegal throughout the U.S.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1964 the SNCC organized a vote-registration drive for Southern blacks, it brought northern collage students to work for it, they endured harsh punishments, later on the increase to vote population would rise
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Johnson pushed for a voting rights bill, August 6th 1965 Johnson sighned the VRA into law, in banned other laws to keep balcks form voting, sent federal officials to register voters, population for vote increased through the South
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SCLC organized a VR drive in Selma, included a protest march to Mont AL, March 7th marchers crossed a bridge, state troopers attacked them, Americans watched the violence, pressure for federal action rose <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <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** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Johnson told Alabama gov. no more violence, the march resumed, the president sent troops to protect it, used the public's anger to push for action on voting rights

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Johnson asked Americans to seek "great society", the program provided programs to promote education, end discrimination and prtect the enviorment, many programs exist today for all those things
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1966 MLK and SCLC joined protest in Chicago, no laws denied AA their civil rights, frustration led to riots, MLK was shot on April 4th 1968, AA rejected the nonviolence, in SNCC the white members had to go
 * 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** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many organizations were reated under the AA own contol, example the Nation of Islam, lead by Malcom X, MX rejected them, wanted to come back but couldn't, civil rights progress came slow for AA
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**