Civil+Rights+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** – NAACP help AA get equal rights. Legal action-segregation slowly leaving. Standing up for themselves. A.A. succeeding in cities.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?** **Tweet** – There was a boycott because blacks had to sit in the back of the bus. Blacks boycotted by not using the bus system for over a year. Before Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister and after he was a civil rights activist and leader.

**Tweet** – Black kids wanted to go to school and then the government got involved because whites got mad. Blacks were able to go to school then.
 * 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 **  – The Greensboro sit-ins were an action for the Civil Rights Movement and it lead to an increase on national sentiment.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A protest group in the 1960s against racial and social injustice and against the war in Vietnam.

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal;">Black and white freedom riders integrating interstate travel, rode from Washington DC to Jackson, Mississippi. Get violent too. **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963?**
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – ** Turning point. Targets Birmingham, Alabama. Bombing and violence. Children were involved and many people were arrested. Responded violently and Birmingham agrees to push for a civil right act and to integrate.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">The act made racial discrimination in public places illegal. Also required employrers to provide equal employment opportunities to African Americans.
 * 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; font-size: 90%;">Objective was to end the political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South. Made Freedom Schools to teach about the Civil Rights Movement.
 * 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; font-size: 90%;">Civil rights act passed by Congress. First national law to guarantee fully the voting rights of all Americans. African Americans could vote now.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - protesters marched 54 miles with help of AL troops. Helped pass voting rights act sooner.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 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; font-size: 90%;">It included a "war on poverty" and federal support for education, medical care for the elderly, and legal protection for African Americans. It helped African Americans safely survive through the Movement.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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; font-size: 90%;">A march that led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act which outlawed Southern states' attempts to prevent African Americans from voting.
 * 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;">It becomes divided because some people now want violent protests and are sick of the unfairness.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**