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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** – People began to see racism as a bad thing and people started to notice it on the news.

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

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person and the African Americans decided to not take the busses at all.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – The Bus Boycott stopped segregation on busses and created the SCLC

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – 9 African Americans went to a white school for the first time. there were angry mobs, but it was a success.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – Angry white southerners got mad at integration/desegregation and tried to prevent it by crimes.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – There was a sit in at a lunch counter where they were not served.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) **
 * Tweet ** – This is a committee where students organize non violent protests like a sit-in.

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – Blacks sat in the front of the bus and forced whites into the back.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Children protested peacefully and were beaten and thrown in jail.

** What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** – The evilness of segregation was shown and MLK wrote his letter from jail.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – This was when MLK gave his "I have a dream..." speech. This gained President Kennedy's support.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** –there would be no more discrimination in public places. Job discrimination is also now illegal.

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – this program brought college kids together to get equal voting rights.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – this gave equal voting rights to everybody, so there was no tax or test to vote.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – This was a march that got a little violent and MLK was attacked.

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – President tried to help pass a voting law.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – It helps by passing many programs that "end poverty and racial injustice."

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – The movement in the north wasn't for rights, but was to prevent racism.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) **
 * Tweet ** – It is doing well, things were being pased by the government, but MLK was assassinated.

** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** **Tweet** – Malcolm X wanted the world to live together peacefully.

** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) **
 * Tweet ** – This is a group that monitors the police decisions non-violently.