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 -


 * Define "Civil Rights" -**
 * Tweet ** –Rights that all #citizens of a #society should have #13thamendment #14thamendment


 * Define "Civil Liberties" -**
 * Tweet ** –Basic rights guaranteed to citizens by #law

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

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** –Starting to #StandUp to segregation by boycotting


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

**Tweet** –#Rosa was thrown out of the bus so under #MLK we #boycotted the busses and now the busses are #integrated

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet** –The busses in #Montgomery are now #Integrated and we are starting to follow there lead

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet**– Little Rock 9 tried 2 integrate Central High school, white mobs threatened the group, National guard of AL prevented them from entering, Gov of AL denied a law allowing #segregation.

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** –#Threatened desegregation of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet**– 4 african american college students began a sit-in to desegregate a lunch counter in Greensboro. #Standingup

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – A committee formed from the success of sit-ins by many young people. #Fixingproblems


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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) ** **Tweet –Desegragating the interstate busses! #Congress**

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video]** ) ** **Tweet** – Confrontation of the Government! #StandUp

**Tweet** –Sit desegregated at lunch counters, no more segregation signs, and African Americans can get #jobs downtown now! #SoClose
 * 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**– many united groups that called for passage of ceight rights bill, Kennedy promises #support

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) ** **Tweet**– Freedom Summer helped African Americans try 2 get the right 2 vote in Mississippi, nonviolence, #withstood violence and threats

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, **[|Freedom Summer], video** ) ** **Tweet**– SNCC proposed voting rights campaign, integrated college kids 2 get more media coverage, #brutal attacks on blacks, led to injustice, expressed disliking in status quo

 **Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) **  **Tweet** –We can now vote with no #restrictions

 **Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">video )** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000;"> **Tweet** –Now the world knows about what they do to us in #protests

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;"> ** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000;"> **Tweet** –Created the #greatsociety program

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;"> **Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000;"> **Tweet** –Racial injustice is now #over

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;"> **Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000;"> **Tweet** – No impact at all in the north. #whytry

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;"> **How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000;">**Tweet** –leaders #disagreed what to do next, some continue nonviolence, others more aggressive, cities became less interested blacks forced whites out of groups

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;"> ** Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) ** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000;"> **Tweet**– Nation of Islam's most popular personality = Malcolm X. Went to Mecca and met Muslim people of all races. Wants equality for all now. Gunned down by NOI won #return to United States

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse;"> ** What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Black Panther Party] ** ) **

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff0000;">**Tweet**– Black Panthers gained more followers from the poor and weak. Had #threatening means. Has a anti-White and anti-Semitic message. Leaders were Bobby Seale, Huey Newton