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** – Rosa Parks inspires more protests, African Americans gaining money and resources, sit ins, here we come end to segregation!
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – in 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested, led to protests in Montgomery. Local groups didn't ride buses on Monday's and protest.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – There was supposed to be integration, nine Black kids enrolled in Central high, governor Orval Faubus agreed with segregationists. Eisenhower sent military jeeps with machine guns to escort these kids to 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 college students decided to have a sit down in a cafe, waitress refused to serve them coffee. Later, much more protesters including whites joined in. Later they had itching power and ammonia on them.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Since the college student protest in the cafe was successful and attracted thousands of protestors, the SNCC was formed. Student Non-violating Committee. The civil rights leaders had created this because they were impressed by the progress and amazing performance.


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

**Tweet – **  On freedom rides, black and white men and woman would sit anywhere on the bus. The colored could sit in the front. Later, this led to arrest but it also led to confidence in the african people.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet**- African Americans wanted more open facilities and public facilities. They invited Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC to join. This then lead to lots of brutality. People were being shot at by water cannons and fire hoses. This horrified the white leaders and they desegregated lunch counters, removed segregation signs, and employed more African Americans in downtown stores.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet**- On August 28,1963, 250,000 marched towards tbe Lincoln Memorial. Martin Luther King Jr. was involved in this march. He spoke his famous words here. Many groups united for equal rights and President Kennedy promised support.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet**- This law banned segregation everywhere, which of course means public places. This helped develop Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet**- This is when students from the north side of the nation came down the the south to try to enforce equal voting rights.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet**- Now, these voting rights allowed all african americans, colored people, and others to vote. It banned literacy tests and other laws that kept Blacks from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet- When MLk and his people were walking from Selma to Montgomery, they were attacked by state troopers.**
 * 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- President Johnson was outraged. He sent state troops to protect them now.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet- The Great society was a plan to stop racial aggression and segregation forever. It provided different programs to the women, the poor, and the elderly.**
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

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 * 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** – Now African Americans were forcing the whites out of their protests. They wanted freedom now. Also, Malcolm X was gunned down.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**