Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.12b
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.
Trace the chronology of civil rights events in Alabama and across the nation, and summarize how they impacted one another.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Put major civil rights events in order, from Brown v. Board of Education through the Voting Rights Act. Explain how national decisions shaped events in Alabama and how Alabama protests influenced national laws.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place the Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham campaign, Civil Rights Act, Selma marches, and Voting Rights Act in order. They can explain how the Selma marches increased pressure for voting rights legislation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may place the Selma marches before the Birmingham campaign or think the Voting Rights Act came before Selma. They may also confuse a court ruling with a law, or assume one protest alone caused a law to pass.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students order Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, the Selma marches, and the Voting Rights Act. Ask them to explain how Selma affected the law.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated event cards, from Brown v. Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act; have them order the cards and draw influence arrows.
Ask: How did television coverage of the 1963 Birmingham protests help build support for the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
Play a match game with event and impact cards; students explain why Selma matches the Voting Rights Act before keeping the pair.
Compare today's Alabama voter registration form with an Alabama literacy test used before 1965; name one barrier the test created.
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Related Standards
- SS24.AS.16c
Identify civil rights leaders and foot soldiers in Alabama, and explain their contributions to fostering change in the state.
- SS24.AS.16a
Describe how civil rights campaigns in Alabama were led by a coalition of local, grassroots organizations and national civil rights leaders and organizations.
- SS24.5.18
Identify political achievements and legislation nationally and within Alabama that have furthered the modern civil rights movement since 1970.
- SS24.AS.14a
Trace the history of Black institutions in Alabama from their establishment during Reconstruction to the present.
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