Civil+Rights+Movement+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!)

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – More Americans began to see racism as evil(Due to the racist beliefs that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust),the African Americans gained important resources such as jobs and became more determined to win full equality at home using theses resources.

** What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video ) **

**Tweet** – In 1995, after a ferocious event leading to the arrest of Rosa Parks, an issue was appointed to all African- Americans that the will begin A Montgomery Bus Boycott, and African Americans shall not ride the buses until they are integrated.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video ) ** **Tweet** – After 13 months of fighting for freedom, the boycott had gained a massive amount of media and the bus segregation law was challenged in court. The Supreme Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional and the boycott was victorious in ending the segregation on Montgomery buses.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Following the Brown Case, two certain schools in Little Rock, Arkansas made plane to integrate but were met by fierce resistance from the National Guard troops(and a mob of angry citizens) ordered by the governor, to keep the African Americans out of the school. The governor eventually was forced to withdraw when President Eisenhower sent jeeps with machine guns to escort the African American students.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** –LOOK ABOVE

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Encouraged by the Little Rock Case, African Americans staged sit ins in which they refused to move until their demands were met in an attempt to desegregate many lunch counters. Even though they were greatly abused the African Americans stayed put and eventually they forced many stores with lunch counters to serve African Americans.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The SNCC was created following the success of the sit ins as an organization which supported young people and created more pressure for change.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video ) ** **Tweet –** A Civil Right organization called CORE(Congress of racial equality) planned Freedom Rides to desegregate interstate and out of state buses and achieved their goal when Kennedy sent protection and eventually integrated interstate bus facilities.

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** **[|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ) ** **Tweet –** Devising a cunning plan to increase pressure for change, African Americans began staging non violent protests in Birmingham. A Civil Rights Organization called SCLC recruited children for the Birmingham marches gaining the sympathy of the nation.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ) ** **Tweet** – Birmingham's white leaders agreed to desegregate lunch counters, remove segregation signs and employ more African Americans in downtown stores.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ) ** **Tweet** – The March on Washington united many groups that called for passage of Civil Rights laws and gained the support of President Kennedy.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – After the death of Kennedy, a man named Lyndon Johnson became president. Vowing to continue Kennedy's policies, he pushed for the Civil Rights Act to be passed and in July the Civil Rights act was passed. The Civil Rights Act banned the segregation of public places, such as hotels, restaurants and theaters.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Freedom Summer], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video ** ) ** **Tweet** – After the Civil Rights Act was passed Southern African Americans were still having difficulty voting so in result, the SNCC( Civil Rights Organization) organized a voter- registration drive for Southern blacks. This organization became to be called the Freedom Summer.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – Due to all of the Voting commotion, President Johnson harshly pushed for a voting rights bill to be passed by Congress.Eventually in 1965, he signed the Voting Rights Acts which by law banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|video], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** **Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,'sans serif'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">In early 65, several civil rights groups planned a march from Selma to Montgomery, a distance of 50 miles, to dramatize registration inequities.<span style="font-family: sans-serif,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first march took place on March 7, 1965 known as "Bloody Sunday" when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police. The second march took place on March 9. Only the third march, which began on March 21 and lasted five days, they made it to Montgomery, 50 miles away.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – The historic march, and King's participation in it, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South, and the need for a Voting Rights Act, passed later that year.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – The Great Society, created by President Johnson provided a series of programs to help the disenfranchised, the poor,elderly and women. It also included legislation to promote education, end discrimination and protect the environment.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – Not yet segregated, Chicago has ignored the protests of segregation until finally African Americans became fed up with their lack of political power and economic opportunities. Soon Chicago was thrown into mass chaos as a massive series of riots began in the late 1960s that only erupted more at the news of the Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – The Organizations created to fight for freedom, have began to disagree about what steps to take next. The SCLC and other organizations wanted to expand the nonviolent struggle but other groups wanted the movement to be more aggressive, and hence we created a disagreement.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Malcolm X was a leader of the Nation of Islam, a group that urged African Americans to separate from whites that supported their cause. After leaving the group, Malcolm began thinking of new ideas and began to picture a world were all races could live together in peace, unfortunately he died before he had a chance to spread his message.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;">The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American revolutionary organization established to promote Black Power, and by extension self-defense for blacks