CRMTweets

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** –

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

**Tweet** –

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** –

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** –

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** –

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** –

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** –

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –**

** 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 impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** –

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** –

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** –

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** –

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** –

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

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** –

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement]<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**).** **Tweet** –

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**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** –