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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** – People decided it was time for change, and they were more involved, also moral was up.
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**

**Tweet** – bus boycott, december 5th- december 21st, MIA decided to do it after Rosa Parks incident, segregated buses were ruled illegal
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**

**Tweet** – little rock nine, desegregated schools
 * 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, wanted free acess to places of public accomidations, many places became desegregated 

 Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 

**Tweet – people protested, rode interstate buses to desegregate them ** 
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * <span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Arial;">What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – boycotts and demonstrations in the downtown area, sit ins, violence, students began to march, mainly all were arrested, motivated civil rights movements throughout the nation

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** – several hundred thousand people marched into washington d.c to protest many issues, the impact gave people hope that change was coming

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** – it covered most voting rights and acts of segregations, first was mostly for african americans, then broadened out
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** – the freedom summer was an attempt to register as many african american voters in mississippi as possible
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** – guarenteed full voting rights to all american citezens
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** – was supposed to highlight the end of segregation, actually 3 marches
 * Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** – his great society was him working on helping to end a bunch of problems in the united states. some problems included poverty and civil rights.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**Tweet** – it is deciding between if you want to be a violent or peaceful protester
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**