CRM+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 ...

**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 -

Tweet– The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
 * Define "Civil Rights" - **


 * Define "Civil Liberties" - **
 * Tweet ** – one's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country.

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement**

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – Racism Is Evil. It was like fighting a whole new war.


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

**Tweet** – Busses were boycotted, they were done listening to the white people.

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** – Showed that the blacks wouldn't put up with this anymore.

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817, **Watch the Video ** ) ** **Tweet** – Little Rock 9, first black kids to attend school with white.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** ** Tweet ** – They didn't want the 9 black students to go to the school so they used military to bring them in.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – black students took up all the counter chairs at woolworth's to protest their rights #sit-ins.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet**– Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee: pressure for change is increasing


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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet – 7 blacks and 6 whites set off on 2 busses bound for the deep south in order to test the supreme court.**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) ** Tweet  – Hundreds of students marched in order to talk to the mayor about segregation in there city.

** Tweet ** – A movement organized by the SCLC in order to bring awareness to the unfair treatment of blacks.
 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **** (CA 819-820, video) **

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) ** **Tweet** – MLK's famous speech. #thetimehascome #Ihaveadream

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet** – Outlawed major formes of discrimination against blacks. #thetimehascome

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) ** **Tweet** – Blacks were aloud to vote but were unfairly treated when they went to vote.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet**– Banned literacy against black voting

**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** –

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

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet** –

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet** –

**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] ** ) **