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.
 * Civil Rights Movement TWEETS**

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 find racism evil and African Americans became more determined to win their equality.

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) **

**Tweet** – African Americans were unhappy with Rosa Parks' arrest after refusing to give up her seat, so African Americans boycotted buses and decided they would not ride the bus.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – It ended Montgomery Bus segregation, made Dr.King well known, and led to the creation of SCLC.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Nine African American students were supposed to be allowed to attend a white school. The governor declined their admission and president Eisenhower eventually had to call in guards to let them into the school.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – The Ku Klux Klan redeveloped in the South as well as White Citizens Councils to prevent desegregation.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – A couple of African American students sat down at a lunch counter and didn't order anything to eat, but would not move. It was one form of silent protest. Eventually, the protests forced stores with lunch counters to serve African Americans.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Civil rights leaders realized how effective nonviolent protests organized by students were and decided to help organize a group for students to take part in protests.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** African Americans rode buses to certain destinations to show how determined they were. At many stops they were met by angry racists who beat them and hurt them and arrested them.

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – African American children from Birmingham left their classes to protest while their families were working.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – The Birmingham Protests made Birmingham leaders agree to desegregate many places.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – The March on Washington brought different groups together to demand the passage of civil rights laws.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – It banned segregation in public places as well as creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Basically, it outlawed segregation in America.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – Freedom Summer was a program that brought Northern college students into Mississippi to work with SNCC organizers.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – This act banned laws that prevented blacks from voting.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – African Americans marched from Selma to Montgomery in nonviolent protest.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – President Johnson creates the Voting Rights Act.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – Johnson's Great Society provided programs that helped give people who didn't previously have the option, the option to vote as well as many other things. This will help give African Americans the opportunity to vote.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – Practically nothing was resolved after this. It was a failure. **How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – It is not just focused on African Americans anymore, now it is expanding to the Muslim population.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – He did not like separatist ideas and believed that all races and religions should stay together in peace.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – The Black Panthers were nonviolent protesters from Oakland, California.