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?**

NAACP started taking action in the courts-started to outlaw segregation in parts of American life.

**Tweet** –   ​ **Tweet** – **9 African American students went to all white school, one student to be the first African American to graduate from that school. One year later the school closed. This would later bring up the idea of integrated schools.**
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest? **
 * Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on Montgomery bus, a year later segregation of buses is declared illegal. **
 * 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** – They held sit ins at a lunch counter, were refused, and stayed. More people joined in. This led to students across the country holding sit ins. **Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** –

Part of the Council of Federated Organizations. Believe Freedom Summer (started to keep African American rights going) should be made of all African Americans.


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

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**
 * The Freedom Riders were members of the Congress of Racial Equality, they went out in two buses to integrate bus stations from D.C. to New Orleans.**

Had sit ins and boycotted downtown. Fred L. Shuttlesworth led a march towards city hall and police were involved. More happened as well. It resulted in movements across the country and an end to Alabama segregation laws.
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> –

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

Led by civil rights advocates, many people marched to DC to show civil rights and how they feel about Segregation. For desegregation of schools, pass civil rights bills in Congress, and demand for higher minimum wage. It grew the CRM.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Provided some legal basis for modern day CRM, like voting rights and segregation. Also been used to help rights of other groups against discrimination. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Freedom Summer was the summer after the highly successful drive to gain African Americans the right to vote in Mississippi. The Freedom Summer started to make sure the fight for African Americans did not fade.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**
 * What was Freedom Summer? **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the first national law to give all Americans the right to vote. It is said to be one of the successful civil rights acts ever passed by congress.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The Selma to Montgomery March in 1965 was a demonstration to go against and protest segregation in Alabama.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Johnson soon after passed and signed the Voting Rights Act.


 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Had other Latinos and Mexican Americans who also fought descrimination <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Womens liberation movement was created. they wanted to break away from what women were traditionally thought of.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**