CivilRightsMovementTweets

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.

EXAMPLE – 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 b some opposition! **// (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!)

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** –More Americans began to see rascism as evil because of Hitler. African Americans, after fighting for freedom, wanted more at home. More blacks moved to cities and made more money and contacts.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** –Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing her seat on a bus to a white man. African Americans began a nonviolent boycott of bus service in protest. Martin Luther King and the SCLC spearheaded the 13 monthboycott. Violence against blacks got national attention and then the Supreme Court ruled the restrictions unconstitutional.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** –Following on the Brown case, the Little Rock School Board attempted to integrate their schools. Segregationists tried to block the students. The Governor called out the National Guard to stop them. Finally, President Eisenhower sent in federal troops to insure entrance.
 * 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** –Afican Americans staged a sit in at a lunch counter for whites only. The number of protesters increased and segregationists began to abuse them. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet –CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) planned freedom rides to desegregate interstate buses. They were attacked by segregationists but wouldn't give up. President Kennedy sent in Federal marshalls to protect them. **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –Protesters wanted to integrate public facillities, and geet better jobs and housing for blacks. Martin Luther King and the SCLC began protests and king was arrested and police turned hoses and dogs on protesters including children. Americans watching on Tv were horrified and the protesters prevailed.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** –8/23/63 demonstration to build support for civilrights legislation. 250,000 people attended and King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

**Tweet** – President Johnson, after Kennedy's assassination, signed into law legislation banning segregation in public places and creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

**Tweet** –In 1964, the SNCC organized a voter registration drive for Southern blacks. Northern college students traveled to MS where they endured bombings, beatings, arrests and murder.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** –President Johnson pushed throught he Voteing Rights Act in 1965 which banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote. It was enforced by federal agents.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Martin Luther King and the SCLC organized a voting drive including a protest march to Montgomery. As they crossed a bridge, they were attacked by state troopers. Americans watched on TV and pressured the federal forces to intervene.
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** –The Great Society tried to put an end to poverty and racial injustice. It developed a series of programs to help the disenfranchised and poor, promote education end discrimination and protect the environment.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** –Civil rights leaders disagreed as to how to proceed. In the North, efforts to end simple discrimination were frustrated, Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968 and riots broke out, rejecting nonviolence. Some African Americans formed the Nation of Islam. none //Optional:// a note about this edit for the page history log
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**

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