Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.18
The Standard
Identify political achievements and legislation nationally and within Alabama that have furthered the modern civil rights movement since 1970.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify civil rights changes made after 1970 by the federal government and by Alabama voters. They explain who each change affected and what it did.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that 1975 voting law changes protected some voters who needed ballots in another language, and that the 1990 ADA addressed access for people with disabilities. They can explain that Alabama voters removed an unenforceable interracial marriage ban from the state constitution in 2000.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think interracial marriage first became legal in Alabama in 2000. The ban had been unenforceable since 1967. Others confuse a federal law with an Alabama vote or assume that passing a law ends unfair treatment right away.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one federal civil rights change and one Alabama change made after 1970. For each, write who it affected and what changed.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs place cards for the 1975 voting changes, 1990 ADA, and Alabama's 2000 vote on a two-lane federal and Alabama timeline.
Ask: Why remove Alabama's interracial marriage ban in 2000 if courts had already struck it down?
Read three short cases about voting, disability access, and interracial marriage; have teams match each case to the law or vote.
Show a photo of the school entrance and ask how the 1990 ADA relates to access for people with disabilities.
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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.16
Explain how major Alabama civil rights campaigns brought about federal action and the resulting expansion of civil and human rights.
- SS24.5.12e
Identify Alabamians who contributed to concurrent civil rights movements in the United States during the decades following World War II.
- SS24.5.12b
Trace the chronology of civil rights events in Alabama and across the nation, and summarize how they impacted one another.
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