Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.12d
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.
Summarize how opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Alabama officials and other opponents tried to slow civil rights gains. They connect voting restrictions, blocked school entry, and attacks on marchers to the rights people sought.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how literacy tests kept Black residents from voting and how police attacks in Selma threatened people marching for voting rights. They can describe how George Wallace tried to block Black students from entering the University of Alabama.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think only angry crowds opposed civil rights, missing the actions of officials and police. They may think Wallace kept Black students out permanently, though federal intervention led to their enrollment.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: Name two ways opponents in Alabama resisted civil rights efforts. Which right did each action target?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs photos of Wallace at the schoolhouse door and police confronting Selma marchers; have them label the right each action threatened.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how a literacy test could keep a qualified person from voting.
Play a matching game with cards showing Alabama events, opposition tactics, and the rights those tactics targeted.
Compare a current Alabama voter registration form with a 1960s literacy test excerpt; circle requirements that no longer appear.
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Related Standards
- SS24.AS.16b
Identify ways in which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.
- SS24.5.12c
Describe the contributions of Alabama leaders and foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement as well as other Alabamian supporters who aided their efforts.
- SS24.US2.10e
Describe how key Alabamians provided leadership, generated change, or demonstrated resistance to the Civil Rights Movement.
- 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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