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, 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** – NAACP played big part. Brown V Board helped, opened up a new path for civil rights movement.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus, she was then arrested, MLK led a protest to boycott the bus system, led to integration of the city bus.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

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

The Orval Faubus wanted to desegregate the already integrated school in Little Rock Arkansas. To do this he tried to block the nine african american students from coming into the school by having the National Guard come. The president had to force Faubus to obey the law because faubus was breaking it.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – 

The first black ate a meal, sitting down, at Woolworth's in Greensboro, these were called sit-ins. After one week, 300 blacks have been customers. There were many protest against this. Because of this lunch counters were forced to serve african Americans. 

**Tweet – ** 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

White and African americans rode on several types of public transportation to change the status quo and to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation . <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Arial;">What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** –

Protests in Birmingham began with a boycott to pressure business leaders to provide employment opportunities to people of all races, and end segregation in public facilities, restaurants, and stores. To dissuade demonstrators and control the protests, the Birmingham Police Department, led by Eugene "Bull" Connor, used high-pressure water jets and police dogs on children and bystanders

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** –

250,000 people marched on Washington and stopped at the Lincoln Memorial. The highlight of the march was when Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech. This united many groups that called for passage of civil rights.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** -
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

it was a law that outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment. It was create mainly to help african americans.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** –
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="font-family: '-webkit-sans-serif'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African Americans voters as possible in Mississippi which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** -
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965?**

it was a law that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for that widespread disfranchisement of african americans.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** –
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

The Selma to Montgomery marcheswere three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights Movement <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** –
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

It was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and of racial injustice