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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.
 * Civil Rights Movement TWEETS

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.

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**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 - African Americans noticed how racism played the biggest part in the holocaust and didn't want it to happen to them. They fought for freedom all around. **
 * 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? ** 
 * Tweet - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and she was arrested. Martin Luther King Jr. had the idea to boycott the busses to gain equality on the busses. King rises to prominence. **

**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 **  - **Nine black kids wanted to attend integrated high school. Resistance wanted to lynch students. Governor wrote a letter to the President Eisenhower asking for help. Courts sent national guardsmen to accompany the students all day everyday. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet ** - There was a new form boycotting, it was called Civil Disobedience. Students would have sit ins where they would sit at a restaurant counter for whites only until they were served. They were arrested and took the punishment and then they came back the next day and did it again.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Provide a tweet describing SNCC.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - Student non-violent Coordinating Committee. The organized non-violent protests

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tweet - James Farmer and group of CORE organized a series of protest where white and blacks would ride interstate busses to protest segregated interstate busses. They were responded to with violence. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides?**


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963 ? **
 * Tweet** - Large protests for civil rights. Thousands of people thrown in jail including King. People sprayed with hoses, beaten, and attacked by dogs. Kids started doing to protests so that parents could walk.

**Describe the March on Washington, including the impact.** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - Designed to get support of civil rights legislation. Stopped when MLK gave his famous "I have a Dream Speech" at the Lincoln Memorial and it got Kennedy's support.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - Outlawed segregation everywhere in the US. in July.
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - Designed by SNCC to encourage as many African Americans as possible to vote. There were able to register of 1,200, they faced a lot of violence.
 * What was Freedom Summer?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - It made voting a whole lot easier and black voting went up 50%
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - Large march protesting voting rights in Montgomery, they were attacked by state troopers after the came over a bridge.**
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.**

Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - I told the governor that this was not going to be allowed and then I sent in troops to protect to protestors on their march.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - I created programs designed to help the uneducated, the poor, and end segregation. The programs also helped make voter registration easier.
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - Segregation laws had not been placed into effect yet. Huge riots broke out killing many people.
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s.**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Tweet** - After MLK was shot many protestors were really mad and responded with violence. Some African Americans wanted to be completely set apart from whites. Malcolm X did not and he was killed.
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?**