-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.

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

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – After WWII Americans see racism evil, also African Americans wanted to gain civil liberties even more

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting on the white part of the bus. She was an active member of NAACP, used this for the Bus Boycott. At first this passive resistance didn't work.
 * What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video) **

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – It made Martin Luther King the face of the Civil Rights and a target for it's opposition. It made segregated buses unconstitutional and illegal.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Black kids wanted to go to school, governor first said ok, then changed his mind. Eisenhower wanted the issue to be settled in court, didn't work. many riots, blacks escorted into school. In the end government made them all go to private schools.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – 80% of southern whites opposed desegregation, KKK starts violent opposition, white citizen councils form to segregate community

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – 4 college satin the White part of the counter, but were not served. Kept coming and waiting. They were humiliated abused and arrested, but became a popular form of protests for more than 50,000. They did not fight back.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Student Non-violent colored Commitee. Stronger than the older people formed of young black students. Only non-violent protests. like the Sit-ins.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – Core, the Committee of Racial Equality. Black and White people rode into territory that was in the deep south to get rid of segregated travel. People attacked them and injured them. Both Kennedy's sought to intervene.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) **
 * Tweet ** – Students marched but were met with police opposition in Birmingham, media coverage shows high-pressure hoses, attack dogs, and police violently interfering with protest.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – Showed public violence used against blacks and helped desegregate lunch counters, jobs, signs and also gain white support for CR

** What was the impact of the March on Washington? ** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – The march united many people that wanted to pass CR laws

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a law that banned segregation in public places. It also crated the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to stop job discrimination.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – The freedom Summer was when SNCC made a voter-registration drive in the South for blacks.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** –The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a law that banned literacy tests and other tests that kept blacks from voting.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – In 1965 MLK and SCLC made a voter registation drive in Selma Alabama and marched to Montgomery in protest. They were met with white resistancefrom state troopers on horseback.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – After the media showed the horrors of the march the federal government was pressured into action. They were then escorted to their destination. This march led to The Voting Rights Act.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – Johnson's Great Society beliefs included a series of programs to help the poor and elderly, and helped to end discrimination.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** –The black community had very little political power. Their lack of this led to riots, and many deaths and arrests.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – The movement's views become divided because of the slow progress of civil disobedience. Some want to continue others want to turn to violence.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Malcolm X was initially a part of the Nation of Islam which sought to separate from the whites, but then changed his views to make a united community.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) ** **Tweet** – The Black Panther Party was fed up with the slow progress of the movement and was one of the many groups that turned to violence.