4+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** – ﻿Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on the bus. the Black community need something big to set off the protest and this was it.

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

**Tweet** – ﻿ The Montgomery Bus Boycott where no black citizens rode the busses.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ It was the first organized and long lasting Black Civil Rights protest. It propelled the civil rights movement to a national stage.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ Nine black children attended the school and the National guards had to come in a protect it from harsh racism.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – ﻿They were yelling lynch her lynch and spitting in her face.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – ﻿A sit in protest where they refuse to move unless there demands were meet.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – ﻿Many Civil rights saw the success of sit in so they wanted young people to organize more in the Student Nonviolent Cordinating Committee.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video ) ** **Tweet – Black and white people were now allowed to ride the same busses for interstate travel. **

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #0e0c0c; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">﻿ Over 1000 children marched in a protest and the police sprayed high pressure hoses and dogs were sent after them then they were jailed.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ It led to the march on Washington

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ 250,000 people took place in this march to washington where MLk delivered his " I have dream speech" in front Lincoln memorial

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ A sighed law to banned Segregation in public places.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Freedom Summer], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ** ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿Brought Northern Collage students to Mississippi.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – ﻿It banned literacy test and other things that keep blacks from voting.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|video], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** **Tweet** – ﻿ MEet with massive police resistance.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ He helped them finish there march.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – ﻿It was a series of programs that helped provide for the poor, elderly, and women.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – ﻿ They were helping the black community out with civil rights.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – ﻿ It separates the groups of people.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿It was a black Muslim group trying to get civil rights.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – ﻿The group aggressively monitors police patrols.