CRM+Tweets


 * 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**

More americans began to see racism as evil. Many white americans saw that racist beliefs had contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust, so they began to recognize that racism shouldn't be in the US. The war made African Americans more determined to win equality at home. Blacks also gained important resources to help them fight segregation. More blacks moved into bigger cities and they made more money.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)**
 * Tweet –**

The Montgomery bus boycott is when African Americans boycotted the public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks, which was the women who refused to five up her seat to a white person on a bus. The blacks made a plan to stay off the buses to protest the arrest and trial.
 * What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, video)**
 * Tweet –**

The Montgomery bus segregation law was challenged in the court, the Supreme Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional. This boycott ended segregation on Montgomery buses, led to the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and it made Dr. King one of the best-known civil rights leaders in the nation.
 * What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? (CA 816, video)**
 * Tweet –**

This town wanted to integrate, so it called for 9 blacks to enroll at Central High School. At the beginning segregationists tried to block this integration of the school. 8 of the students got phone calls saying that someone would drive them to school everyday for their safety, National Guard Troops would help them into the school. The students were still allowed to go to the school and were escorted everyday in and out of it.
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event? (CA 817)**
 * Tweet –**

That was opposition to desegregation that had risen in 1957. Elizabeth Eckford threatened in school which led to Eisenhower forcing radial opposition to stop.
 * What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South? (CA 816)**
 * Tweet –**

People did sit-ins, which was when people protested in which people sit in a place and refuse to move until their demands were met. As these spread, segregationists began to abuse the protesters and most were effective.
 * What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event? (CA 817)**
 * Tweet –**

The SNCC was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and it was created to give younger people larger roles in the Civil Rights Movement.
 * 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 –** The Freedom rides were when African Americans and civil rights activists drove buses from D.C. to the South to protest the segregation on the buses. Racist people were very angry about it and would throw rocks at the bus, slashed the tires and throw fire bombs. When the people would exit the buses, many people would beat and kill them.

**Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? (** [|__Project "C" in Birmingham__], [|__video__] **)** Tweet – In May, activists begin collecting children to march. By the end of the first day, 700 have been arrested. On May 3rd, 1000 more children show up to peacefully protest, and Connor turns high-pressure fire hoses and police dogs on them, creating some of the most violent images to date. After five days, 2500 protesters fill the jails, 2000 of them children.

**What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? (CA 819-820,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** –After people saw the pictures of the police abusing the children, President Kennedy agreed to push civil rights legislation through congress.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** **(CA 820,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** – Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his "I Have A Dream" speech which made many people feel free.

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** **(CA 820)** **Tweet** – They were acts that tried to intergrade places. they were weak in the beginning but then got stronger.

**What was Freedom Summer?** **(CA 821,** [|__Freedom Summer__], [|__video__] **)** **Tweet** – It recruits train in ohio and then go to mississippi.

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** **(CA 821)** **Tweet** – They were laws that blacks could vote but most people disagreed with them.

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. (** [|__**video**__] **,** [|__**video**__] **)** **Tweet** –King wanted full voting rights for blacks. There was severe violence from the police but eventually the march could proceed without police abuse.

**Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. (** [|__The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL__] **)** **Tweet** –He passed a voting rights law so that african americans could vote.

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** **(CA 822)** **Tweet** – This wanted to help the racial injustice and poverty. Many blacks were poor and discriminated towards so they wanted to change that.

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|__Chicago Freedom Movement__] **).** **Tweet** – It didn't help very much because the people really didn't want to become integrated.

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** **(CA 822-823)** **Tweet** – Because a lot of leaders were disagreeing about what steps to take next. There were no laws that denied blacks their civil rights in the north. Blacks all over were frustrated with their lack of political power and economic opportunity. Black struggle for equality encouraged civil rights movements among other oppressed groups.

**Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. (CA 822,** [|__The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X__] **)** **Tweet** – He believed in black pride, self-sufficency and self-defence.

**What is the story with the Black Panthers? (** [|__The Black Panther Party__] **)** **Tweet** –They are a political party and are not like most of the black protesters. They want to use violence and they use guns and aggressiveness instead of non-violence.