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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. 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. Racist beliefs had started the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust, racism had no place in U.S., WWII made African American fight for freedom in Europe, so they wanted freedom in America too, more blacks moved into cities which helped fight for integration Rosa Parks arrested, without black passengers buses cant function, 13 months, Supreme Court declared segregated bus law unconstitutional, blacks rode bus again, ended segregation, led to SCLS, made Dr. King best known for civil right leader School Board enroll nine students in white school, start integration. For three weeks, no one let children enter school, Eisenhower sent jeeps and machine guns to help escort children into school. Four college student stated sit in to desegregate lunch counter, later on, more protestors helped sit-in, out of movement, the SNCC formed, the civil rights pressure increased. Civil disobedience- peaceful protest Formed in 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was created to give young people a larger role in the civil rights movement Blacks and whites getting together to end interstate integration. They hit violence in these busses, but when reach jackson, all are arrested. In 1961, segregation was ended in interstate travel. Turning point of the Civil Rights movement. Birmingham was the most segregated city. On April 12, 1963, Dr. King and thousands others marched to Birmingham. King was arrested, with many others. Because of loss of money by not working, On May 2, 1963, children joined the protest. Then again, police began arrests. Almost 1,000 children were in jail. This time, authority turned to violence. Last on May 10, 1963, the leaders of Birmingham accepted the demands of the marchers. Kennedy agreed to pursuit civil rights bill through congress. Known as Birmingham children's crusade. Then Birmingham agrees to integrate. International and domestically, America looks awful. On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people participated in the March on Washington, March ended at the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King gave his famous, "I have a dream," speech, this march united many groups that called for passage of civil rights laws. Was signed into law in July, banned segregation in public places, such as hotels, restaurants, and theaters, created the Equal Employment opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination, segregation was illegal in United States.
 * EXAMPLE TWEET – 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 be some opposition!//** (that’s 138 characters … and a pretty complete tweet!)
 * Section 1 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement **
 * What "changes" were making the efforts of African Americans more successful than ever? **
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 * What happened in Montgomery in 1955, and what were the results of this protest? **
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 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Provide a tweet describing SNCC. **
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 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Section 2 – Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights **
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 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">What was the story and impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? **
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 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Describe the March on Washington, including the impact. **
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 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? **
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SNCC organized Freedom Summer in 1964, brought Northern college students into Mississippi to work with SNCC organizers, young volunteers endured bombing, beatings, and arrests while performing their work, managed to add a1200 blacks to voter registration rolls **Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** Banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from registering to vote, sent federal officials to register voters, percentage of black who registered to vote increased from 10 to 60 percent.
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">What was Freedom Summer? **
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">First march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7, 1965 was planned to highlight the abysmal segregation in Alabama, second march two days later ended peacefully, third Selma to Montgomery march started in Selma on the afternoon of March 21. More than 320 people, white and black, participated in the 54-mile journey, King gave a speech
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. **
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Verdana;">President Johnson sent what would become the Voting Rights Act to Congress in light of the violence committed against civil rights workers and African Americans
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Provided a series of programs to help the disenfranchised, poor, elderly, and women, included legislation to promote education, end discrimination, and protect the environment, one program was Medicare, it provided health insurance.
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SCLC and other organizations wanted to expand the nonviolent struggle, King and the SCLS joined protests in Chicago, since there were no laws that denied African Americans their rights, people just discriminated against them.
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s. **
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After Kings assassination, African Americans denied nonviolent and cooperation with whites. Black members of the SNCC, forced whites members out of the organization, form th elate 1960's on, civil rights progress for African Americans slowed, but the African American struggle for equality encouraged civil rights movements among other oppressed groups.
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s? **
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