Civil+RIghts+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** – Th e changes that were being made were the full voting right of African Americans and to end legal discrimination based on race.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks(African American) refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus and then Rosa was arrested then there was national attention and the African American population of Montgomery issued a bus boycott.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – Kids wanted to go to school but could not. The Arkansas Govenor had to call the president Dwight Eisenhower and the Militia to escort all of the kids to the schools.
 * 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- The African Americans of Greensboro wanted to be able to sit down for something eat so the members of Congress of Racial Equality had a protest and had a group called Freedom Riders. **

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – The SNCC had become disenchanted with white participation in the movement and wanted to organize a group around the concept of black power.


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

**Tweet - ** The Freedom Rides were a series of organized interstate bus rides in 1961 that were meant to challenge discriminatory laws in southern states.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

**Tweet** – The impact was that the blacks who were protesting were being arrested and wanted people to see what they were doing all over the U.S.
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Hundreds of thousands of people of all races led by Civil Rights advocates marched in Washington to demonstrate for Civil Rights against segregation in the United States.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – The Civil Rights Act provided much of the legal basis for the modern civil rights movement. Enacted on July 2,1964 and it covers many areas of discrimination.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – In 1964 The Council of Federated Organizations took after a largely successful drive of the previous year to register African American voters in Mississippi.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What is possibly the the most successful civil rights act ever passed by Congress. Supported by Lyndon Johnson, it was the first national law to allow full voting rights to all Americans.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">March 21-25 in 1965 where there was a march from Selma to Montgomery to protest segregation in Alabama. This was the last of three marches from Selma to Montgomery. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">President Lyndon B. Johnson mobilized 4,000 Alabama National Guard Troops to guard the marchers and authorized any help necessary to secure the safety of the marchers.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Great Society was a program of social and economic reforms designed to promote social equality and economic fairness for all Americans. It would expand the role of the federal government in the nation's domestic policies. Many of the policies of the program were the same as 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** – Mexicans and other Latinos fought discrimination and demanded equal opportunities in education, housing, and employment in the United States.
 * 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** – The Movement began to break apart because young activists began to drift away and many black militants were unhappy with white participation. The militants turned to the black power concept. The assassination of Rev. King was the crushing blow to the Movement.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**