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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** – Started to see Ra cism as evil, fought for freedom in the war and wanted better treatment, moved into cities and made more money, contacts trust
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – Rosa parks was arrested and the bus boycott began.
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – 9 african american students enroll act central high, national guard troops keep them out of school, the 101st airborne had to escort them throught the mob of people in jeeps with machine guns, paratroopers held the crowd back
 * 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** – sit ins at a collage sat in to desegragate a lunch they came back each day with more protesters, itching powder and ammonia and burned them with cigarettes Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights was elected because he helped arrage mlks release, he didnt want to ager the south with nonsegregation but the core as formed, interstate busses were desegregated and itegrated interstate busses

**Tweet – interstate busses were not segregated, were attacked sometimes which lead to integration of interstate busses **
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**

**Tweet** – 250,000 people, ended at the lincoln memorial MLK delivers his i have a dream speach
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – They used anger of segregationists against them, segregationists got violent and made themselves look bad, king went to jail and wrote protests,Birminham's protesters agreed to employ more african americans desegregate lunch counters
 * Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.**

**Tweet** – band segregation in public places, equal employment opportunity, made segregation illegal through the us
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

**Tweet** – brought students to mississippi they endured lots of violence managed to add 1200 more african american voters to regestration rolls, marched on Montgomery
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

**Tweet** – Banned literacy tests and other laws keeping african americans from voting, brining the percent regestering to 60% from 10%
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">**Tweet** – attacked by state troopers on horse back, we were protectd when the march continued by us troops
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">**Tweet** – helps educate the african americans helsps the disenfranchised, elderly, and women, it ends discrimination
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">**Tweet** – didn't agree on the method to obtain the goals sclc nonviolent other groupes wanted a more agressive approach
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**