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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. Make sure your tweets are comlpete and cover a great deal about the topic ... but are limited in size! Don't worry too much - 140 is just a ballpark figure.

**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!)
 * EXAMPLE TWEET – Why was Brown v. Board important?**

**Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement** **Tweet** – The Brown vs. Board case made a difference because now people would protest for rights in public places and more induviduals came out to lead groups. **Tweet** – A Montgomery Bus Boycott was held after Dec. 1st, Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on the front of a bus and was arrested, wow! This Boycott was against the bus systems in Montgomery and no blacks would ride the buses it took about a year and made Martin Luther King a CR leader **Tweet** – When 9 black kids were selected to go the white high school,mthe people of Little Rock were really mad about it. There was a mob and people wanted to hang the 9 kids so had to get the national guard in there to calm things down for them **What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – This was the scene of one of many sit-ins where African American would sit at the counter of diners and would not be served but refused to move. More people across the country started this kind of protest and some diners desegregated! **Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** **Tweet** – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a group that organized protests that went on from college kids, its main work was protesting and it inspired many of the protests we know of today
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever?**
 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest?**
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?**


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

**Tweet – ** These 1961 rides were a series of bus rides which groups of blacks and whites would travel together on bus rides around Alabama. This would sometimes end very harshly with burnings of buses or fights. **Tweet** – Many black leaders started a march to downtown Birmingham and huge numbers of people made marches in Birmingham (kids were turned to, to protest). Dogs, arrests and other hardships were faces and there was an incredible amount of violence and laws began to pass through congress and relents. **Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">200,000 people of many races marched to Washington DC as a protest to the government to let them know they wanted this bill passed now, and quickly. This march was indeed effective because it let people know they were serious. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This was an act which covered many areas of civil rights, mostly voting and segregation rights. It mostly was meant to help African Americans but it also helped for all races in America <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This was a summer in which action was taken to try and help voting rights of African Americans. Many organizations helped out with this summer and it was quite a influencial thing that was done. But it was very sad that Four people were killed. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This act was very successful for congress to pass and was very important for African Americans to be able to vote. It insured that the southern states could not deny them their right to vote, no matter what and raised the voting percentages a lot! <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This was a march which was to protest all the terrible segregation going on in Alabama. A lot of times, they did not turn out very well and Alabama brought in the national guard to stop the African Americans from getting very far, but the third march was successful. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – President Jackson passed another bill through congress which would be the Voting Rights Act and it was mostly as a reaction to all the violence that was going on in the Selma march and so congress passed the bill! <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – This was a group of programs which were meant to reduse poverty and to stop the injustice of different races. This will be helpful because now the president is on their side and wants to help everyone who is a minority and needs help. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** – What happened in the north was that lots of protests broke out there too. There were protests everywhere and there was so much violence all over the North going on as results of these protests and Americans being unfair and reaction to them.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**
 * Story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**
 * What was Freedom Summer?**
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**
 * Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. **
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**