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So many ** TURNING POINTS ** 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 links, 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, and **you can use @** to direct you comment to someone. To get 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 ... make sure your work is **ORIGINAL** (not cut and paste), **HISTORICAL** (with great details), **CREATIVE** (first person, emotion, hashtags, pics, etc), and **TWITTERIFIC**.

**Tweet** – //** Plessey overturned by SC, separate is not equal, schools must desegregate “with all deliberate speed”, bye bye @JimCrow? 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 -


 * Define "Civil Rights" -**
 * Tweet ** –


 * Define "Civil Liberties" -**
 * Tweet ** –

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

**Tweet** –
 * What happened with the buses in Montgomery in 1955? ([|Rosa Parks Ignites Bus Boycott], video) **

**What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?** ** (video, [|Montgomery Bus Boycott]) ** **Tweet** –


 * Tell a little bit about the SCLC and its young leader. ([|Martin Luther King, Jr.])**
 * Tweet ** –

**What happened in Little Rock in 1957, and what were the results of this event?** ** ([|Daisy Bates and the Little Rock 9], [|Integration of Central High School photo gallery], [|Video] ** (//usmstudent, wildcats//) **, **PBS Eyes on the Prize Video, [|Little Rock]from Digital History ** ) ** **Tweet** –

(//usmstudent, wildcats)//, [|Freedom Now!]from Digital History **Tweet** –
 * What happened in Greensboro and Nashville in the early 1960s, and what were the results of this event? ** ([|Greensboro video] and [|Nashville video]

**Tweet** –
 * What is the story with this group called SNCC? ([|Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]) **

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

**What happened on the Freedom Rides?** ([|Freedom Riders video], video, [|To the Heart of Dixie], [|Freedom Rides]from the History Channel) **Tweet –**


 * What is the feeling of the black population about the election of John F. Kennedy? ** ([|Kennedy gets majority vote])
 * Tweet ** –

**You just heard about what happened to Medgar Evers. What is your reaction? (** [|Medgar Evers assassinated] ** ) **
 * Tweet ** –

** Can you describe Project C in Birmingham? ( ** [|Project "C" in Birmingham], [|video]** ) **
 * Tweet ** –

**Tweet** –
 * What was the impact of the Birmingham Protests in 1963? ** ( video)

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** ( video, [|King Speaks at March on Washington]) **Tweet** –

**What was the deal with the Civil Rights Act of 1964?** ** ([|Civil Rights Act of 1964]) ** **Tweet** –

**What was Freedom Summer, and why did it need to happen?** ** (CA 821, **[|Freedom Summer], video** ) ** **Tweet** –

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 * SECTION 3 **

**Tweet about the Voting Rights Act of 1965** ** ([|Voting Rights]) ** **Tweet** –

**Provide a tweet describing the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. ([|video], video)** **Tweet** –

** Describe what President Johnson did as a result of the Selma march. ( ** [|The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL] ** ) ** **Tweet** –

**Tweet about Johnson’s Great Society – how will it help the Movement?** **Tweet** –

**Tweet about the impact of the movement in the North, especially Chicago, in the later 1960s (** [|Chicago Freedom Movement] **)** **Tweet** –

**How is the Movement dividing in the later years of the 60s?** ** ([|Black Power and Black Nationalism]) ** **Tweet** –

**Tweet** –
 * Who is Malcolm X, and what are his ideas for the movement? ** ([|Malcolm X], [|The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X]** ) **

**Tweet** –
 * What is the story with the Black Panthers? ( **[|The Black Panther Party]** ) **

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