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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** **Tweet** – Could make more $, worked well w/ fellow coligues, could move 2 cities
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa P was arrested, her friends said dont go on bus, boycotted 4 13 months, some whites, lots of violence, went 2 court, no more seg. on bus!
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 AA kids want 2 go to a white school, gov. sent National guard to stop them from going to school, 1 of 9 faced a mob outside school, pres. forced 101st airborne division into LR!
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – 4 AA collage kids do sit in at store, werent served anything, by 4 day 100 kids came, kids were abused, succesful, leaders formed SNCC.

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – protests against segregated buses, beatings, few spared **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – AA wanted better homes/jobs/public things, police attacked with dogs and hoses, people watch on tv, were horrified,white leaders agreed to deseg.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – 250000 people marched, stopped at lincoln M, King said "I have a dream" speech, brought together many people, started civil rights laws.

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – didn't allow segregation in public places, started EEOC, that stopped job discrim.
 * 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** – Let collage kids from the north to work with the SNCC, yield bombing, beatings, arrests, and murder.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – banned literacey tests and other tests that kept AA from voting.
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – state troopers attack on horse's, people watch violence on TV, pressure 4 gov action rose.
 * 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** – provited programs for unfortunate, elderly, and woman, also included legislation for edu end discr, and help enviro.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black';"> **<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Tweet **–** MLK assasinated, malcom x too, too many protests, whites not interested in deseg. <span style="display: block; color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; text-align: center;">
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?

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