CRM+Tweets-5.9.12



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 rights that are given to you as a US citizen that cannot be taken away from you. **//
 * Define "Civil Rights" -**
 * Tweet ** –


 * Define "Civil Liberties" -**
 * Tweet ** –
 * // The ability to exercise your rights and freedoms freely. //**

**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 American's were starting to see racism from evil //**
 * // - Many Americans, who were white, began to think that those who believed in racism, contributed to the Holocaust and the rise of Adolf Hitler //**
 * // - People began to realize that racism wasn't meant to be in the United States, that it didn't have a place. //**

**Tweet** –
 * What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video ) **
 * // African Americans began to not ride the buses, which meant that they would not operate. //**

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video ) ** **Tweet** – //** The impact of it was it proved that it definitely upset the whites because when Elizabeth Eckford arrived at school on a bus because she had no phone, the whites were very upset that the African Americans were allowed to arrived at school. **//

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817, **Watch the Video ** ) ** **Tweet** – //** In Little Rock 1957, nine colored students were allowed to enroll into Central High School which made the school officially integrated; The outcome of all this was that Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock. **//

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – //** The massive resistance was developed in the South and was the large group that threatened the desegregation of schools, they led to the integration of nine colored students at Central High School in September 1957. **//

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – //** At Greensboro in 1960, four African American students began a sit-in; when a waitress refused to sit to serve them because of race, and eventually, more and more people joined them and the SNCC was formed. **//

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – //** The SNCC was formed after what happened in Greensboro; it was formed to show the support for the organization for young people, the civil rights movement increased the pressure for change. **//


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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video ) ** **Tweet –** //** What happened on the Freedom Rides was people would get on buses and they would challenge discriminatory laws. The Freedom Rides resulted in the death of Medgar Evers. **//

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** **Tweet** –
 * // What happened was, people recruited children to protest/march and in basically 2 days, some children were dead/arrested, for PEACEFULLY protesting. //**

**Tweet** –
 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **** (CA 819-820, video ) **
 * // The impact of the Birmingham Protests was teenagers and children were arrested, beaten, killed, wounded, and so many other things just because they fought for the right of equality. //**

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video ) ** **Tweet** –
 * // It was one of the most important days in history, because Kings words made many Americans feel free for the first time in their lives. //**

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** –
 * // It was an act that banned segregation in public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. //**

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** –
 * // It was a march to give African Americans the right to vote, no restrictions. //**

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – //** The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote. It also increased the voting percentage of African Americans in Selma who registered to vote by 50% **//

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ( [|video], video )** **Tweet** –
 * A large and long march of colored people, it was a march for freedom and an extra pressured push for civil rights for the colored population and people of America. **

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

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** –
 * // The Johnson's Great Society helped the movement by pushing Americans to search for a "great society that demands an end to poverty and racial injustice." //**

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** – //** In the later 1960s, in Chicago, riots broke out because of the feeling they had with lack of political power; 164 riots total broke out in the 1st 9 months of 1967. **//

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** – //** Movements started dividing by the power of Malcolm X rejecting the separatist ideas and left the group of the Nation of Islam. **//

**Tweet** –
 * Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) **
 * // His ideas were too have all races live together in a world of peace. //**

**Tweet** – //** The story of the Black Panthers would carry around guns, they would use their rights to bear arms and walk the streets and use their arms as defense systems for their safety **//
 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) **