Civil+Rights+Movement+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 saw racism as evil, Hitler + Holocaust caused by racism, Af Ams determined to have equality in America, more blacks in cities with more $.

**What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815) ** ** Tweet ** – <span style="color: #800080; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Montgomery Bus Boycott – Blacks protesting by not riding buses at all, MLK talks to the group organizing the boycott, boycott goes on for 13 months <span style="color: #800080; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 816)** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – Bus segregation ruled unconstitutional, boycott done, bus segregation done, lead to formation of SCLC – coordinated CR protests, boycott made MLK very well known leader.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event? (CA 817) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – Integration at Central High School, nine Af Am kids enrolled, angry mobs formed, Gov ordered troops to the school to break up mobs and escort nine kids to school.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 816)** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – Massive Resistance threatened desegregation of Little Rock schools, following the Brown vs. Education case.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event? ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(CA 817) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – A sit-in was to integrate a lunch counter at a store in NC, more protesters came, protesters were abused, and sit-ins forced all lunch counters to serve blacks, SNCC, SCLC

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide a tweet describing SNCC. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(CA 817) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, MLK=advisor, inspired by Greensboro sit-ins, forced desegregation of public facilities, and voting rights for Af Ams <span style="display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">


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


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What happened on the Freedom Rides? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 818)**
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tweet – **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 110%;">Whites in back of the buses, African Americans in front of the buses, refused to move, blacks tried using “whites only” facilities, almost all freedom riders were beat

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times','serif';">[|Project "C" in Birmingham] **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> B o mbingham, segregation now and forever quote, C for confrontation, 2000 kids in jail out of 2500 total, fire hoses and dogs hurt kids, more Civil Right protests

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(CA 819-820) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – MLK + SCLC, MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, kids marched and hurt with fire hoses and police dogs, white leaders desegregated some public facilities, more Af Ams hired

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What was the impact of the March on Washington? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 820)** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – 250000 people, ended at Lincoln Memorial where MLK’s “I have a dream” speech, March on Washington united many desegregation groups, and Kennedy promised support.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 820)** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – President LJ continued Kennedy’s policies, banned segregation in public places, created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, made segregation illegal in America

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">what was Freedom Summer? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 821,** <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times','serif';">[|Freedom Summer] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – SNCC’s voter-registration drive for Southern Blacks, brought northern college students to work w/ the SNCC, faced bombings, beatings, arrests, and murder

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 821)** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – 8/6/1965, banned literacy tests and other laws that kept Af Ams from registering to vote, sent officials to register voters, voter registration % from 10% to 60%

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – 54 miles, unfair laws and local violence, 525 marchers hurt by police, TV made people sympathetic to the marchers, second march led by MLK

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times','serif';">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – Marchers escorted by National Guard, 25,000 marchers come to Alabama State Capitol, U.S. Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 822)** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – Wanted an end to poverty and racial injustice, made programs to help women, elderly, poor, and the disenfranchised, ended discrimination, and was green

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822, ** <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times','serif';">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) ** **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times','serif';">Tweet **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times','serif';"> – Chicago whites accepted integration like southern whites; MLK leaves Chicago fixing little, 250 MLK marchers find 3000 officers and huge mobs of angry white citizens

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **(CA 822-823)** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – CR Leaders disagreed about next steps, MLK assassinated 4/4/1968, Af Ams got violent with whites and segregationists, Af Am neighborhood riots killed over 45 people

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. (CA 822, **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times','serif';">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 120%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** Tweet ** – Nation of Islam’s national spokesman, black pride, self-sufficiency, and self-defense, Malcolm X assassinated in Harlem

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">what is the story with the Black Panthers? ( **<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times','serif';">[|The Black Panther Party] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) ** <span style="font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">** Tweet ** – Armed w/ loaded guns and weapons, questioned and watched police actions, #1 risk to USAs inner security officials, officials wanted to break the law to end Panther group