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, 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 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.

**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** – Brown Vs. Board, separate not equal, African Americans continued 2 fight in courts, more anti-segregation decisions, strive 2 enforce courts' decisions
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks arrested, didn't give seat 2 white man, boycott of buses lead by MLK Jr., achieves integration on city's buses
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Arkansas High School integrated, Governor didn't want integration, ordered National Guard to block entryway 4 9 new black students, president brings in troops
 * 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** – North Carolina college students "sit-in" at Woolworth's lunch counter after not being served because of race, started thousands of "sit-ins" across U.S.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** - Student Non​violent Coordinating Committee, created after "sit-ins", increased CRM


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

**Tweet – **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**
 * Protestors rode interstate buses, blacks in front, whites in back, protestors beaten, buses set on fire. Kennedy sent federal marshals 2 protect protestors, 4 months ltr Congress integrated buses. **

Birmingham protesters were peaceful, wanted integration in city, MLK Jr. jailed, police use dogs and firehouses on protesters, including children, ppl saw on tv, international newspapers, makes U.S. look bad.
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 250,000 ppl, blacks and whites, march ended @ Lincoln Memorial, King gave "I Have a Dream" speech, Kennedy promises support

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Provided most of th legal basis 4 th modern civil rites movement. Originally passed 2 protect rites of African Americans. Sections have been used by other groups.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Th Council of Federated Organizations met in Greenville, Minnesota. Proposed that a Freedom Summer campaign b aimed @ expanding the voter registration drive. White students were recruited 2 help.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 1st national law 2 guarantee fully th voting rites of all Americans. Enacted August 9th.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** –
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**
 * Done 2 protest segregation in Alabama. Actually last 3 marches from Selma. 1st day: broken up by Selma police. 2nd: ended peacefully but short of its destination 2 days ltr.

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Prez Johnson mobilized 4,000 Alabama troops 2 guard th marches & issued Ex. Order 3645 - that authorized any help necesssary 2 secure th safety of th marchers.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Its 2 main goals r 2 help eliminate poverty and racial injustice. Eliminated racial injustice wud gr8ly help the movement.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Blacks all over nation were angered by lack of economic & political equality. Led to riots all over nation.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – It split apart. Women wanted rights, so did Mexican Americans and other minorities. The Movement started 2 divide in2 these different groups.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**