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** – More Americans were being to think racism was evil, Blacks were more determined than ever to win their freedom. ** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) ** **Tweet** – Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus and was arrested. Leading to African American's boycotting bus transportation. **What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – This set the stage for African American civil disobedience and many other African American boycotts. It also created a law against segregation on buses. **What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – 9 black students enrolled at a high school in Arkansas on the 1st day of school rioters threatened to lynch the students. Eisenhower sent National Guard to break it up. **What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – White rioters were against the 9 students at little rock Central High who threatened to lynch them. **What happened in** **Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – 4 blacks began sit ins at a lunch counter where they sat next to whites and refused to move. They continued for a week with over 100 more protesters alongside. **Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – This was a group of civil rights leaders after the success of the sit ins who created an organization for young people in the civil rights movement.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** These were interracial Protests against segregation of busing where whites would sit in the back and blacks would sit in the front and refuse to move. ** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Blacks began to put children at the head of protests to maintain financial support if the kid was arrested vs. the adult many whites saw the abuse blacks were receiving in the south. ** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – Americans who saw the abuse and discrimination were horrified leading to many whites agreeing to desegregate and give blacks more jobs. **What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – It united many ethnic groups that called for passing of civil rights laws that JFK agreed to support. **What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – Law banning segregation in public places and creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finally making segregation illegal. **What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – A black voter registration drive led by the SNCC. **Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – Act erasing literacy tests and other requirements that restricted blacks from voting. The amount of black registered voters increased dramatically. **Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – Series of 3 marches of 1000's of civil rights activists marching in hope to gain voting rights. The marchers were brutally attacked by police and the president had to intervene with the violence. ** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – As a result of the Selma marches Pres. Johnson passed the Voting Rights Ac forcing states to end discriminatory voting practices **Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – President Johnson's plan of the U.S. where programs would be set up to help the poor and disenfranchised. This would give blacks a lot of help. **Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – In the North blacks didn't feel they had enough political power or economic opportunity leading to many riots in the late 60's. **How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – With the killings of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X black America had no major strong leader for their movement and many began to forget about the nonviolent resistance. ** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Malcolm X was against the isolated ideas of Islam and pictured a world where people of all races could come and live together peacefully. He was shot by other Islams. ** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Group of blacks in the late 60's from Oakland who were armed trying to protect the black community by watching out for the police brutality taking place in black neighborhoods.