CRM+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** – After WWII Americans found that segregation was evil and bad because Hitler segregated against Jews, etc. They wanted more African Americans to live in the cities.

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

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the white area of the bus. The bus system became unsegregated and the Montgomery Bus Boycott lead to equality eventually. However, it took a very long time for the buses to allow African American and white equality.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – The Montgomery Bus Boycott lead to showing what was going on with segregation in the South. Also, Martin Luther King Jr. became involved with the civil rights movement.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Nine African American children attended a previously all white school. Their bravery lead to African Americans to have a better ability to attend schools. However, many whites were angry with the little rock nine and segregationists lined up outside of the school and protested. The government had to order guards to escort the children to school.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – The "massive resistance" was when African American children in Little Rock were allowed to go to school.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – There was a sit-in at white lunch counters. The protest spread across the South and white protesters became arrested.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The SNCC was a group of African Americans and whites that worked to help create equality in schools and other aspects of life.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – The freedom rides were when African Americans rode buses through the South and tried to protest against segregation and the Freedom Riders were in danger.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – The children 's Crusade was when African American children were the protesters and went to Birmingham to protest. The children were the ones to protest because they would be more effective. The African American children were arrested and the police used high pressure fire hoses and dogs against them, even though they were peacefully protesting.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – The Birmingham Protests lead to African Americans being able to more easily get jobs in Birmingham and it lead to more equality in Birmingham.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – It showed that African Americans deserved freedom and that we are all equal. Also, it was where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said his famous " I Have A Dream Speech."

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – President Johnson banned segregation in public areas.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – Freedom Summer was a group of African Americans and whites who wanted African Americans to have equal voting rights, etc. They protested and assembled in Mississippi.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – Literacy tests that kept African Americans from voting were banned.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – The Selma to Montgomery march was a long march that consisted of violence and police assistance. However, it lead to future freedom for African Americans.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – President Johnson signed a document allowing the African Americans voting rights.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** - President Johnson attempted to end poverty and wanted to get rid of segragation.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – King took a group of people to Chicago to clean up the slums, but after much violence from whites, return home without have made a great impact.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) **
 * Tweet ** – MLK was assassinated and African Americans became violent with white segragationalists.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Malcolm X was a leader of an African American Muslim group that showed violence towards whites that would harm African Americans and discriminate against them.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – The Black Panthers were a group of Civil Rights supporters that helped the community and were a threat to some whites.