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 (I'm sure you do, from your friendly English teacher), 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, videos, 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.

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

GRACE'S TWEETS:
**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?** **Tweet** – There were now many non violent protests and there were efforts of integration in schools.

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? **

**Tweet** – After Rosa Park's bus protest, several African Americans and even some whites boycotted the Montgomery buses. This deeply effected the Bus system because they heavily relied on the transportation of African Americans.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?**

**Tweet** – -The Montgomery Bus Boycott lead to several civil rights movements. Also The Interstate Commerce Commission stopped segregation in public transit.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**

**Tweet **  – Little Rock was an effort to integrate schools in which they sent 9 African American kids to a white school. The 9 African American kids experienced very terrifying behavior and violent threats from whites. The Governor refused to allow the school to integrate so FDR had to send the  101st Airborne Division into Little Rock.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – Four college students sat in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They refused to leave until their demands were met. The waitress would not serve the students only because they were african american. This led to many lunch counters serving African Americans. Also after this event the SNCC was created.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Black college students from North Caroline A&T University would not leave a lunch table at Woolworth's lunch counter where they would not be served on February 1, 1960. This movement caused other college students to do the same type of protest. In Shaw University, Raleigh the SNCC was created two months after the protest. This was where college students would organize these "sit ins". It also allowed these sit ins to become public. Nashville integrated their counters.

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – ** Civil rights activists went to the southern Untied States that was extremely segregated on interstate buses. They did this to test the US Supreme Court. This caused various violent attacks on the activists.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">** What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – On May 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in 1963 hundreds of students marched in Birmingham Alabama. They wanted to integrate public places, and have better job and housing opportunities. The Police took violent action on the marchers. The nation became terrified after seeing this on TV so the white leaders of Birmingham agreed to get rid of segregation signs, to integrate lunch counters, and lastly give more jobs to African Americans in downtown stores.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **Tweet** – The purpose of the Children's Crusade was to walk down to the mayor to talk the segregation in their city. The children would leave school to be arrested then set free and then arrested again the next day.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – On August 28th, 1963, 250,000 marched in Washington to show their support of the passage of the laws that protected the civil rights of all people. The March ended at Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King gave his I have a dream speech. This led to many groups for the passage of civil rights laws, and also Kennedy promised his support. **GRACIE'S TWEETS:**

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – The Civil Rights Movement helped fight against racial segregation, and wanted to give African Americans voting rights.

**What was Freedom Summer?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – Freedom Summer wanted to help register African American voters in Mississippi, it was aimed at expanding the voter registration where it was most opposed. (Wanted to change people's minds about voting)

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – The Voting Rights Act authorized the voting rights of African Americans, especially in the South, and didn't allow states to change their election laws without the permission from the Government.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – The March was planned to "highlight the abysmal" segregation in Alabama - although state troopers acted violent toward the marchers, the March ended peacefully.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> ** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **Tweet** – President Johnson issues as injunction barring the state/local police from creating difficulties with the third march.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – Johnson sent the Voting Rights Act to Congress, which didn't allow violence against African Americans and Civil Rights Workers. It worked against poverty and racial injustice.

**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; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – The percentage of African Americans below the poverty line dropped from 55% in 1960, to 27% in 1968.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – There are now different movements all around the country - even the Chicano Movement, Native American Rights Movements, and Women's Liberation Movement.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – Malcolm X spoke for African Americans, and he advocated separation of black and white Americans - he was a very inspirational leader.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Tweet** – The Black Panthers are the group that inspired the "Brown Berets," who led high school protests and demonstrations.