CivilRightsMovementTweets

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

// What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? //  Tweet  –Americans began to see racism as evil, African Americans more determined to get equality @ home, blacks had more resources 2 help them fight segregation

//What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest? //  Tweet   –Bus boycott- blacks did not ride busses; ended segregation on Montgomery busses, led to the founding of the SCLC, made MLK one of the best-known civil right leader in US

// What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event? //  Tweet  – Schools desegregating in Little Rock, Arkansas; lots of resistance; governor sides w/ segregationists, prevents African-American students from entering school for 3 weeks until Eisenhower has the students safely escorted to school

//What happened in Greensboro in 1960, and what were the results of this event? //  Tweet   – sit-in protests @ a lunch counter; more protesters came; some were abused/ arrested; led to sit-ins across country, forced many places to serve African Americans, SNCC formed


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

// What happened on the Freedom Rides? // Tweet – The CORE planned rides to desegregate interstate busses, JFK sent federal marshals to protect the riders, interstate bus facilities were integrated

// What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? //  Tweet  – African Americans in Birmingham wanted integrated public facilities, better job + housing opportunities; police used dogs, fire hoses on protesters including children; white leaders desegregated lunch counters, took down segregation signs, employed more African Americans in downtown stores

//Describe the March on Washington, including the impact. //  Tweet – HUGE demonstration in D.C. 2 build support 4 new civil rights laws; MLK gave “Dream” speech; united many groups calling 4 passage of civil rights laws; JFK promised support

// What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? //  Tweet  – banned segregation in public places like hotels, restaurants, theaters; created the EEOC; segregation is officially illegal throughout USA!

//<span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What was Freedom Summer? // <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Tweet   – SNCC organized voter-registration drive 4 blacks in South; volunteers endured bombings, beatings, arrests + murder but added 1200 African Americans to voter registration rolls

//<span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 // <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tweet – President Johnson pushed voting rights bill thru Congress; signed <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Voting Rights Act into law 8/6/1965; banned literacy tests, etc; many more blacks registered 2 vote

// Provide a tweet from the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. // Tweet – historic demonstration: March 21-25, 1965; the last of 3 marches from Selma that spring- first 2 were not successful; helped speed the passage of Voting Rights Act

//<span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement? // <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Tweet  –Johnson’s reform plan; programs to help the poor, elderly, and women; laws to promote education, end discrimination, help environment; included Civil +Voting Rights Acts

//<span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? //  <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tweet – leaders disagree about what steps 2 take next; nonviolent or aggressive? Riots; MLK assassination leads 2 more riots; SNCC forced out white members; call 4 “black power;” Malcolm X

//NOTES:// <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';">o   SCLC-The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which coordinated civil rights protests across the South <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';">o   SNCC-The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which was formed out of the sit-in protests due to a need for a civil rights organization for young people <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';">o   CORE-The Congress of Racial Equality <span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';">o EEOC-The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission