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** – NAACP National Association for the advancement of Colored People was created which was a group that wanted to make life equal for African Americans and made legal challenges to segregation. Also peaceful things were done like boycotts, marches, and speeches which were very effective.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. That started boycott of buses. MLK became leader of civil rights movement. Eventually they won stopping bus segregation and allowing blacks to sit where they want.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Nine black students started going to this school that had been all white. School refused and called in state militia to not let them in. They were forced to be allow them in with government interference. Showed the government was not all against them.
 * 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** – Black people sat at tables where only white people sat called sit ins. They got in trouble and got beat up and kicked out. It was a peaceful form of resistance and many people got in trouble but did not violently resist.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee was created to organize African American college students against segregation in the south. They did peaceful resistance like sit ins to try to desegregate.


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

**Tweet – ** Blacks and whites rode together on buses to try to expand civil rights for blacks. The buses went all around and sometimes they got attacked. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Birmingham was a very racist town that did not allow them to march but MLK marched with a thousand others and were put in jail. Then kids came and were also put in jail and used physical violence against them. Eventually they accepted the freedom fighters. JFK then acted to stop segregation and make civil rights.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This is a march were hundreds of thousands of people marched to Washington to get a bill passed for Civil rights and march against segregation. The most powerful civil rights activists came and MLK gave I have a dream speech. Big Six lead it.

<span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This was a set of rights given to African Americans like enforcement of the right to vote, protect rights, stop discrimination. All these things were supposed to be happening already but now they will be enforced. It really kicked off desegregation until everything will be equal.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The council of federated organizations won the ability for blacks to vote in the south but they needed a way so that the racist people in the deep south would not stop them so they got black and white college students to go and vote in those areas.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">This was extremely important to all types of people because it gave voting rights to everyone in America and there was no way any state could get out of it. This helped equalize the races and genders greatly.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This was to protest segregation in Alabama. MLK came to increase African American voters. His first march was split up by police but the second march ended peacefully. The first march made Alabama look bad. They also had a third and even longer march and they made it.
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. **

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. **
 * Tweet** – Johnson made the Voting Rights act because of the violence civil right activists had endured. It allowed everyone to vote. The marches made the act pass faster. Senate approved and it became a law.

<span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – His goal right at the beginning was social equality and economic fairness for everyone. He made a group of programs in his presidency in order to accomplish that which came to be known as great society. This will mean the the president is fighting for the movement too.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – All types of minorities were being seen as more of equals in the north and south. Also many in the north of all races were fighting for equality. Also they were frustrated with their lack of political power causing riots. Also he tried to do things to help out the poor in the north and south.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

<span style="color: #161315; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Some groups wanted to espand the nonviolent fight but others wanted to use more aggresive tactics. MLK was assinated which led to violence from blacks like riots and other use of force.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**