CRM+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. Hashtags (#) can be added to a few tweets to identify major topics or creative associations for the content you are describing. To gt super creative on a few, toss in a twitpic of the event or idea as well! Carefully examine the example and use it as a guide ...

**Tweet** – //** Plessey overturned by SC, separate is not equal, schools must desegregate “with all deliberate speed”, bye bye Jim Crow? Will be some opposition! #morechangecoming **//
 * EXAMPLE TWEET – Why was Brown v. Board important?**

(that’s 140 characters with a hashtag and a pic … and a pretty complete tweet!)

Getting started -

Civil Rights are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
 * Define "Civil Rights" -**
 * Tweet ** –

Civil Liberties are one's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country.
 * Define "Civil Liberties" -**
 * 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. Racism started being like the holocaust War made african Americans more determined than ever to win equality at home.


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

**Tweet** – Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white men so they arrested her! After that the busses got separated again, until Martin Luther King took actions to delete this problem of racism.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – It ended segregation on the bus and it made Dr. King one of the best-known civil rights leaders in the nation. #thebeginningofdr.king

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – White students wouldn't let the colored students enter the school so they had to go escorted by jeeps armed with machine guns.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – Many whites in the south organized groupos to prevent desegration. #whitecitizenscouncil

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Thousands of African Americans sat in desegregated lunch counters. They forced many stores to serve them. #sitins

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – Because of the success of the sit-ins a group was made for young people for the civil rights movement. #Student nonviolent coordinating committee.


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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** Whites would sit in the back of the bus and African Americans would sit in the front and refuse to move. #bravery

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video]** ) ** **Tweet** – Children show up to peacefully protest and they get sprayed with high pressure hoses and police dogs. 2000 of them go to jail.#violentimages

**Tweet** – Burmingham'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 Birmingham Protests in 1963? **** (CA 819-820, video) **

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – It united many groups that called for passage of civil rights laws.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – Segregation was officially illegal through out the united states. #success

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, **[|Freedom Summer], video** ) ** **Tweet** – It was an organized voter-regristration drive for Southern blacks.


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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** Whites would sit in the back of the bus and African Americans would sit in the front and refuse to move. #bravery

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video]** ) ** **Tweet** – Children show up to peacefully protest and they get sprayed with high pressure hoses and police dogs. 2000 of them go to jail.#violentimages

**Tweet** – Burmingham'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 Birmingham Protests in 1963? **** (CA 819-820, video) **

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – It united many groups that called for passage of civil rights laws.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – Segregation was officially illegal through out the united states. #success

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, **[|Freedom Summer], video** ) ** **Tweet** – It was an organized voter-regristration drive for Southern blacks.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – It banned literacy tests and other laws that kept balcks from registering to vote. #roadtofreedom

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ( [|video], video )** **Tweet** – Many people marched from Selma to Mongtomery but were only beaten by police officers. #bloodysunday

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – President Johnson made a speech supporting the marchers.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – It provided a series of programs to help the disenfranchised, the poor, the 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,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – They improved housing, jobs, and schools for the African Americans in the North.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – African Americans in other U.S cities were fustrated with their lack of political power and economic opportunity. This led to a series of riots. #movementdivided

**Tweet** – He visited to Mecca and met Muslims of all races. He then believed that their could be a world where all races could live together in peace.
 * Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) **

**Tweet** – They were a group of protesting African Americans who carried guns and fought back with the police.#different
 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) **