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 winning many supreme court cases that are getting rid of more and more segregation. Like in public parks and prisons.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Black bus boycott led by MLK, African Americans refuse to ride busses, and start car pools. Nov 15 1956 supreme court decided bus segregation is illegal. MLK goes from being a minister to a civil rights leader. MLK is a great leader.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 black students were selected to break Arkansas school color barrier. Governor calls in militia to stop them. Angry mob assembels of whites saying they will lynch the 9 students. Whites realise that the Gov is for de segregation. Blacks get admitted to school. Step in the right dirrection
 * 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** – Blacks sat at lunch counters that would only serve whites until they would be served - sitins. Example of Civil Disobediance, breakign a law that you feel is unjust but doing it peacefully and exepting the conciquences. But started a lot of violence.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – The SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was an organization for young African Americans to protest segregation. Group inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins. Sit-ins was the groups main form of protest.


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

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Black and white civil rights advocates traveled into the south on buses. They wanted to protest segregation on interstate busses. Faced with a lot of violence.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

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 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – Black leaders planed a demonstration of their want for freedom in what was known as the most racist city in the U.S. mass arrests, children sent to segregated prisons. Authorities and citizens used violence, fire hoses, clubs, gas, and dogs. King sent to jail, but pardoned by Kennedy.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A quarter million people peacefully marched into Washington DC as a demonstration for civil rights. People from all over the country came by foot, train, and car. King made an incredible speech. The act showed the government that action was needed quickly.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> – <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enforces African American's Constitutional right to vote, and outlawed segregation in public places. The act banned racial discrimination in hiring. Protects the rights of African Americans.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many courageous young people from mostly all the major civil rights organizations went to Mississippi to help to help African Americans register to vote. They faced minor white opposition.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First law to guarantee full voting rights to all citizens. Prevented states from changing their laws on voting without consulting the national government. Also suspended literary tests that southern states had been using to prevent blacks from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last of three marches from Selma protesting segregation in Alabama. Over 320 people, white and black, participated in the march. They went 54 miles and at the end Dr. King gave a speech. <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,Helvetica,sans-serif;">President Johnson sent what would become the Voting Rights Act to Congress. The Act enforced the 15th Amendment which gave African Americans the right to vote.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Johnson's Great Society was a collection of program of social and economic reforms that would promote social equality and economic fairness for all Americans. It greatly reduced the number of disadvantages African Americans had. It was a big step for the civil rights 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** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the North there were no laws denying African Americans civil rights, whites just simply discriminated against them. People in Chicago were just as interested in desegregation as people in the south. MLK and the SCLC protested in Chicago. Frustration over lack of political and economic power led to a series of riots.
 * 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** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After MLK's assassination African Americans got very upset broke out into riots. Whites were thrown out of SNCC, and many blacks began to discard nonviolent practices. Some believed in black power, they were racist towards whites and wanted to separate rather than integrate.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**