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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, 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**
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Americans start to view racism evil, people thought racism led to hitler, war made blacks want CR at home


 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** –  **Rosa Parks arrested for not moving for white on bus, blacks boycott bus, montgomery bus boycott, 13 months, lot of news, overturned bus seg. laws in supreme court**


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

**Tweet** – resistance threatened deseg. of schools. governor forced to let blacks in by Eisenhower.

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

**Tweet** –  blacks had sit-ins to deseg. lunch counters. sit-ins went national, very effective, forced lunch counters to serve them. new committees formed.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet – <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">were protests against seg. on interstate busing in south, whites would sit in back of bus. blacks in front refuse to move **


 * <span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **


 * Tweet** – <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">blacks wanted integrate public facilities, and gain better opportunities. Fuz arrested king, but Birmingham took away segregation in city.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * Tweet** – **<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Aug 28 1663, 250,00 ppl marched in DC, March ended at Lincoln memorial where MLK delivered I have a dream speech. United groups to support civil rights JFK promised support **

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – **<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> A Bill, banned segregation in public place created equal employment Opportunity Commission segregation was officially illegal **
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – **<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">SNCC brought Collage students into Mississippi, students were beaten and hurt, but added 1200 African Am. into voter registration roles **
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – **<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Banned laws that made it hard for blacks to register to vote(literacy tests) worked very well **
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – **<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">march protesting segregation in Alabama, Dr. King went, marchers were attacked by state troopers. Prez Johnson sent in troops to guard marchers **
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – **<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">series of programs to help poor elderly and woman promote education, end discrimination, protect environment **
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Some wanted to continue peacfully and some wanted to become more aggressive and become more violent. || Help · About · Blog · Terms · Privacy · [|**Support**] · [|**Upgrade**]Contributions to http://turningpoints09.wikispaces.com are licensed under a [|Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License]. Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2009 Tangient LLC.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**