Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.12a
The Standard
- SS24.5.12
- Outline key events and campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement and identify significant organizations and their contributions within the Movement.
Describe ways in which the Civil Rights Movement sought to create change.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people used boycotts, sit-ins, marches, court cases, and voter registration drives to challenge unfair rules. They connect each action to the change people wanted.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how the Montgomery bus boycott put pressure on a segregated bus system. They can explain how sit-ins challenged lunch counter rules and court cases challenged school segregation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think one speech or one leader ended segregation. Some confuse a protest tactic with its goal, or assume a court ruling changed every school's practices right away.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one boycott, sit-in, or court case. Explain what rule people wanted to change and how their action challenged it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a Montgomery bus route map and paper carpool tickets; ask them to plan rides and explain why boycotters avoided buses.
Read a short account of the Greensboro sit-ins, then ask how sitting at a lunch counter challenged its rules.
Have students match cards for the Montgomery boycott, Greensboro sit-ins, and Brown v. Board to cards naming their goals.
Show a current city bus nondiscrimination notice beside a summary of 1955 Montgomery bus seating rules; ask students what changed.
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Related Standards
- SS24.US2.14
Explain shifts in the scope of the Civil Rights Movement from the mid-1960s into the 1970s, including geographic regions, issues of focus, and participation.
- SS24.S.11b
Describe how social movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, have created change throughout the history of the United States.
- SS24.US2.14a
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- SS24.US2.10d
Summarize the political, economic, and physical means by which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement sought to limit its achievements.
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