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 ...

(that’s 140 characters with a hashtag and a pic … and a pretty complete tweet!)
 * EXAMPLE TWEET – Why was Brown v. Board important?** **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 **// [[image:turningpoints09/pnl10-1.jpg caption="pnl10-1.jpg"]]

Getting started - **What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – After fighting in the war in Europe they wanted more fredom. ANd many whites were now starting to see racism as evil. **Tweet** – Rosa Parks didnt get up for a whit person on the bus. And so the Mountgomaery boycott happened, were no black rode on the bus.
 * Define "Civil Rights" -** ** Tweet ** –
 * Define "Civil Liberties" -** ** Tweet ** –
 * Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**
 * 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** – This boycott ended segragation on buses, second led to the founding of the Southern Christian Leardership Conference, and third this boycott made Dr. Martin Luther King one of the best known civil rights leaders in the nation. **What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817, ** Watch the Video ** ) ** **Tweet** – They were letting 9 black students into a white high school, at first the government wouldn't let them in so they had to have protection to ge the kids in saftly. **What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – It was in resistence to the whites who were in support of segragation. **What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – A group of blacks went to a reterant and had a sit in and each day came back with more protestors. The results of this was that it helped the civil rights movement and created SNCC.  **Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe pushed for change in the 1960's Loading...

 **What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –** Whites would sit in the back of the bus and African American would sit in the front and not move. The African American would also try to use the only white physilities. The Childrens Crusade is when the the kids would help out with the protesting. Many kids were wounded from the people and the officers trying into **What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – This march united many groups that called for passage of the civil rights law.
 * Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights**
 * Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( **[|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video]** ) ** **Tweet** –
 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **** (CA 819-820, video) ** **Tweet** –

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – This civil rights act banned segragation in public places such as hotels, resturants

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, **[|Freedom Summer], video** ) ** **Tweet** – The SNCC put together a voter-registration drive for Southern blacks.

Loading... **Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – It banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from voting.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – This march was broken up several times. Police also came in uding extreme mesures. ** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – He proposed to congress s civil rights bill that everybody should be allowed to vote.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – This will hopefully end discrimination.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** –In the north there are no laws that denied African American there civil rigths. White just descriminate the African American on there own. **How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** –


 * Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, **[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X]** ) ** **Tweet** –
 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( **[|The Black Panther Party]** ) ** **Tweet** –

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