Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.12e
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.
Identify Alabamians who contributed to concurrent civil rights movements in the United States during the decades following World War II.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify Alabamians who worked for civil rights after World War II. They connect each person to a specific action, such as Rosa Parks's bus protest or John Lewis's role in the Selma march.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, and John Lewis and explain what each did. They can place the Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham protests, and Selma march in the right order.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Rosa Parks ended bus segregation by herself, without a boycott or court case. They may confuse John Lewis's role in the Selma march with Martin Luther King Jr.'s role.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name two Alabamians who worked for civil rights after World War II. For each person, write one action and where it happened.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pairs match Parks, Shuttlesworth, and Lewis photo cards to event cards, then place the events on a 1955 to 1965 timeline.
Ask: How did Rosa Parks's bus protest and Fred Shuttlesworth's Birmingham protests challenge unfair rules in different ways?
Show an event card and have students hold up the matching Parks, Shuttlesworth, or Lewis name card.
Compare a 1955 Montgomery bus seating rule card with a current city bus rule card, then describe one change for riders.
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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.
- SS24.5.12c
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.
- SS24.5.11a
Identify Alabamians who contributed to the growth of American culture post-World War II into the 1970s.
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