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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 -

Rights that one has as a result of citizenship within a state or nation: rights that all Americans have. Citizens cannot be deprived of their rights: they always have them. #civlirights
 * Define "Civil Rights" -**
 * Tweet ** –

Civil liberties are freedoms that cannot be removed or altered by the government: nobody can take them away, and all citizens have them. They include freedom of speech, right to privacy, right to marry, right to vote, etc...#civilliberties
 * Define "Civil Liberties" -**
 * Tweet ** –

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

**What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813)** **Tweet** – During World War Two, African Americans were more involved in society. People began to see segregation and racism as an evil way of life. Also, African-Americans and whites compared racism to Hitler and the Holocaust. #racistsarelikehitler


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

**Tweet** – 1955- Rosa Parks refused to sit in the "black" section of the bus and was arrested. People started boycotting public buses in the Montgomery bus boycott. #boycottpublicbuses

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (CA 816, video) ** **Tweet**– @Civil Rights. Rosa Parks arrested for not moving from seat! African-Americans angry. NAACP organizes bus boycott, no church members on bus for 13 months! #NAACP #Uprising. #TakeAStand

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817, **Watch the Video ** ) ** **Tweet** – @Civil Rights. Little Rock trying to integrate. 9 blacks enroll at Central High School. Segregationist mob assembles. Gov. calls in Nat. Guard. 101st airborne tries to get them in! #Uprising

**What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South?** ** (CA 816) ** **Tweet** – @Civil Rights. Whites poll overwhelmingly to agree with segregation. KKK organizes beatings to frighten blacks. Segregationists take a stand. #fighting back #backlash

**What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet** – @Civil Rights. Victories encourage blacks! 4 of them organize sit-in at lunch counter. Thousands join in protests. Protesters stay. Some counters desegregate! #whiplash #Uprising.

**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** ** (CA 817) ** **Tweet**– @Civil Rights. SNCC formed, meant for young students to organize nonviolent protests. Helps out with civil rights movements pressures. #Uprising #Nonviolent

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ** (CA 818, video) **

**Tweet –** @Civil Rights. During the protests against bus segregation (Freedom Rides), African Americans would sit in the front of buses and refuse to move, and some whites sat in the back of the bus. #stopsegregation #busboycott

** Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video] ** ) **

**Tweet** – <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">@Civil Rights. In Segregated Alabama, protesters got children to march, but the police used brutality and used water cannons and dogs on the children. #project confrontation.


 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **** (CA 819-820, video) **

**Tweet** – @Civil Rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was put in jail for protesting at Birmingham. He wrote a defense that moved many people. People around the nation and the world saw pictures of what police did to children, and were disgusted and horrified.

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ** (CA 820, video) **

**Tweet**– @Civil Rights. March on Washington unites different groups and Pres. Kennedy promises support. LBJ Civil Rights Act becomes law. #Uprising #March on Washington

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** (CA 820) **

**Tweet**– @Civil Rights. Civil Rights Act bans segregation in public places. Stops job discrimination. Makes segregation illegal throughout the U.S. #Finally #Uprising

**What was Freedom Summer?** ** (CA 821, ** [|Freedom Summer], video ** ) **

**Tweet**– @Civil Rights. The SNCC organizes a movement known as Freedom Summer. Brings Northerners into Miss. to work. Beatings, arrests, and murder. Few blacks can vote. #Uprising

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** (CA 821) ** **Tweet** – @Civil Rights. The voting rights act helped blacks gain voting rights by banning literacy tests and other test that restricted African Americans to vote. #givevotingrights

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** – @Civil Rights. Protesters marched from Selma to Montgomery to gain voting rights. On the first day, police brutality occurred. The march went on, helping blacks gain voting rights. #uprising #selmamarch

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** – @Civil Rights. Predident Johnson passed the Voting Rights act because of the Selma to Montgomery march. #selmamarch

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** ** (CA 822) ** **Tweet** – @Civil Rights. Johnson's Great Society was a program that helped the poor, the elderly, and women. It also put an end to discrimination, which is a huge help in the Civil Rights Movement. #GreatSocietyPrograms #governmenthelp

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822,** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **).** **Tweet**– <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">@Civil Rights. In Chicago and the North, no laws discriminated blacks, just feelings. Because of anger, riots broke out. Whites still discriminating. #Uprising #FarNorth

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** (CA 822-823) ** **Tweet**– <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">@Civil Rights. Blacks push whites out of the SNCC. Blacks want their own power! King assassinated, and movement coming apart. #Downfall #Uprising

**Tweet**– <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">@Civil Rights. Malcolm X urges African-Americans to separate from whites. Originally Islam, he imagines a world where everyone lives in peace. After leaving Islam, he is gunned down. #Uprising.
 * Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. **** (CA 822, ** [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ** ) **

**Tweet**– @Civil Rights. Black Panthers are a group that becomes violent in black rights. Carry loaded guns, but serve the poor. FBI declares them a threat, raids and kills two organizers. #Uprising
 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( ** [|The Black Panther Party] ** ) **