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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** – Acts n govt decisions like CRA and VRA were givin more rites 2 AA's which made stuf easier 4 them, plus boycotts, riots, protests, and such helped. **Tweet** – 1st major event of modern CV acts, buses sgrgted, peeps strt 2 boycott da buses, bad things happen, SC deams sgrgted buses illegal. **Tweet** – 9 AA kids go 2 school in AK, harassed, mayor if city be big doo doo head, prez orders troops to protect the kids. They were still harassed, but showed confidence. **What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event?** **Tweet** – Greensboro sit-ins, restaraunt boycotts, starts wit 4 guys, number gets big, people do it all around world.  Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, an Civil Rights 
 * 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?**

**Tweet – People try to encourage desegragation, and what btr way than on a bus. ** **Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** **Tweet** – Tons of dudes march2 reflectin pool n lincoln m where MLK gives awesome speech. **Tweet** – Gave tons of civil rights to African Americans. **Tweet** – SNCC tries 2 make ways of getting voting rites, hire white, gets a big shot in the stomach. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Primarily gies full voting rights to all Americans. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Big voting marches started in Selma, lots got shot down to the point where prez sends troops and takes consideration 2 acts and passes along voting acts. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – Sends letter 2 Congress saying he wants 2 expand role of fedgovt, trans. relation btwEn govt and citizen, and making sure there arent a lot of suffering Americans, and all will support AA's in some way. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">**Tweet** – U.S. is starting to worry about other non-domestic worries at the time and somewhat disregard civil rights stuff.
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**
 * What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
 * Tweet** – People protest, lots of arrest, lots of violence, whites give in, give blacks rights in south, tension doesn't stop there, JFK sends down troops. YAY!
 * 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 from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**