Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.14a
The Standard
- SS24.AS.14
- Explain how emancipation and Reconstruction produced both an expansion of rights and freedoms and a backlash against this expansion.
Trace the history of Black institutions in Alabama from their establishment during Reconstruction to the present.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Civil Rights
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how Black schools, churches, and civic groups in Alabama began and changed from Reconstruction to today. They use dates and sources to explain the needs these institutions met.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place Alabama State University, Alabama A&M University, and the Montgomery Improvement Association in order. They can use a dated source to explain how one institution's role continued or changed.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may place Tuskegee University's 1881 founding during Reconstruction, which ended in 1877. Some assume Black institutions were only schools or stopped serving their communities after desegregation.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Alabama State began as Lincoln Normal School in 1867 and still operates today. Name one need it met then and one role it serves now.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated cards for Alabama State, Alabama A&M, and the Montgomery Improvement Association; have them build a timeline with each group's purpose.
Ask students to write: Why might a community need both a college and a civic group? Use two Alabama examples.
Play a matching game with founding dates, institution names, and purpose cards for Alabama State, Alabama A&M, Tuskegee, and the Montgomery Improvement Association.
Have students check Alabama State's current website and compare one degree program with the school's original teacher training mission.
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Related Standards
- SS24.AS.14b
Evaluate the role of new labor systems, Black Codes, and violence in stemming civil rights progress following Reconstruction in Alabama.
- SS24.4.15a
Explain political changes in Alabama during Reconstruction, including new state constitutions, Black Codes, changes in political parties, voting rights, and cit...
- SS24.4.12d
Describe the development of educational institutions in Alabama from statehood through 1860.
- 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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