CRM+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 (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 -

An individual citizen’s rights to freedom, equality, and liberty. #landofthefree
 * Define "Civil Rights" - **
 * Tweet– **

My freedom and rights under the laws of our awesome country! #itsintheconstitution
 * Define "Civil Liberties" - **
 * Tweet – **


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

Whites thought racism=evil and it doesn't belong in Uncle Sam’s country while African Americans got more determined and resourceful. #determinationequalssuccess
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? (CA 813) **
 * Tweet – **

BBB- bus boycott began, with some whites involved while MLK started to set foot on the path to his dream of freedom and equality. #herehecomes
 * What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? (CA 815, [|video] ) **
 * Tweet – **

Bus segregation ended in Montgomery and SCLC started civil rights protests all while MLK was rising up. #bussitting
 * What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? (CA 816, [|video] ) **
 * Tweet – **

Integration? Pfft. We don’t need that! But wait, these 9 black kids are trying to get into a white school.. They’re crazy! We’re not integrating. #imthegovernor_nationalguardwillstopthosekids
 * What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?(CA 816, [|Watch the Video] ) **
 * Tweet – **

A huge mass of white Southerners are stopping the African Americans from winning civil rights. All this WCC and KKK stuff is really showing how much they hate integration... #wecantstopnow
 * What was the "massive resistance" that developed in the South? (CA 815) **
 * Tweet – **

Sit-ins can be really effective even in small numbers, but having thousands show up doesn’t hurt! How’s that for integrational movement? #stopabusingus
 * What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event? (CA 817) **
 * Tweet – **

SNCC, you say? Let the civil youngsters fight now! They seem to be making a huge difference.....#wegotthepower
 * Provide a tweet describing SNCC. (CA 817) **
 * Tweet – **


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

Going on a Freedom Ride was like opposite day, the whites would sit in the back of the bus, while African Americans sat in the front, they even used ‘whites only’ facilities! #moresupportmeansmorechang **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">e ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s all over the news..kids are in jail and people are getting beaten...protesters everywhere... What’s going on? #firstamendmentrights <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Those “COLORED” signs are being taken down, whites and blacks are sitting next to each other at the lunch counters....it’s amazing what seeing horrible beatings firsthand can do to a nation. #desegregation=ontherise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MLK and his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech moved the nation. The government has to listen to these hundreds of thousands of people’s words - they’re speaking up. JFK is on their side with civil rights laws on their way. #wecametogether <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ILLEGAL!!!! Finally, this law was created, causing segregation to be considered illegal in public places such as hotels, restaurants, and theaters. #itsillegal <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Freedom to vote at last! Well, except for the bombings, murders, and arrests to try and stop us from giving the government our election opinions... Still. It’s a big deal. #freedomornot?
 * What happened on the Freedom Rides? (CA 818, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|video] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * Can you describe the "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham? ( <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Project "C" in Birmingham], <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|video] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? (CA 819-820, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|video] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * What was the impact of the March on Washington? (CA 820, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|video] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? (CA 820) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * What was Freedom Summer? (CA 821, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Freedom Summer], <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|video] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are FINALLY completely free. I can vote without being tested and I am being protected. Thank you Johnson!!! #itsourrighttoo <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another protest, but HUGE! The violence is out of control...I think we all have sympathy for those injured. #whatamarch <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Johnson’s on our side! He signed the Voting Rights Act and is accepting the people’s push into integration. #presidentjohnson <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is there anyone Johnson doesn’t help? There’s the poor, elderly, disenfranchised, and even women! There’s protecting environment, promoting education, and ending discrimination! #Johnsonsonaroll <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No laws deny African Americans their equal rights in the North, but that’s not stopping the discrimination. Northerners are just as opposed to desegregation as Southerners. #notasdifferentasyouthink <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What with MLK’s assassination, the African American community isn’t doing too great so there’s violence, hundreds of riots, and the African American community’s anger explodes. #blackpower <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MLK wasn’t the only one with a dream. Malcolm X also had his own dreams, and they were possible- he’d seen it. People of all races can harmonize and live peacefully together, so why shouldn’t the U.S. be the same way? #dreams <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They’re armed and dangerous - they have a newspaper, followers, and ideas. The FBI doesn’t seem to like these guys, what with naming them the number one threat to the nation’s internal security. People are really getting nervous and fearful. #arewesafe
 * Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (CA 821) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ( <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|video], <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|video] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement? (CA 822) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (CA 822, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Chicago Freedom Movement] ). **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? (CA 822-823) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * Tweet about the ideas of Malcolm X. (CA 822, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet – **
 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Black Panther Party] ) **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet- **