Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.15

SS24.AS.15 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.AS.15a

  Describe the role of women reformers in promoting reform, including Margaret Murray Washington and Julia Tutwiler.

• SS24.AS.15b

  Explain the role of individuals and communities in helping to expand educational and entrepreneurial opportunities for Black Alabamians at the turn of the twent...

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What Students Need to Do

Students compare reforms led by Margaret Murray Washington, Julia Tutwiler, and Black Alabama communities with the barriers imposed by Jim Crow. They use examples from schools, work, and voting to judge what changed and what did not.

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What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain how Washington's women's clubs and Tuskegee training expanded opportunities for Black Alabamians. They can distinguish those gains from Tutwiler's school reforms, which mainly served white women, and explain why segregation and voting barriers remained.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may assume reforms for women benefited Black and white women equally. They may also mistake better access to training for an end to segregation, or confuse Margaret Murray Washington with Booker T. Washington.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Name one opportunity created by a reformer or Black community, then use one Jim Crow barrier to explain why that gain had limits.

1. 01

   Sort four source cards, Tuskegee courses, Washington's women's club, Tutwiler's school, and a 1901 voting rule, into opportunities and barriers.

2. 02

   Ask: Did Alabama Girls' Industrial School challenge Jim Crow when Black girls could not attend? Cite one source.

3. 03

   Play a card match pairing Washington's club, Tutwiler's school, Tuskegee trades, and Black community fundraising with their beneficiaries and limits.

4. 04

   Check a nearby community college's admissions page and compare who can enroll today with who could attend Tutwiler's school or Tuskegee.

• SS24.AS.16c

  Identify civil rights leaders and foot soldiers in Alabama, and explain their contributions to fostering change in the state.

• SS24.AS.14b

  Evaluate the role of new labor systems, Black Codes, and violence in stemming civil rights progress following Reconstruction in Alabama.

• SS24.4.16

  Describe how political and social changes of the late 1870s to 1900 affected Black and white Alabamians, including the introduction of Jim Crow laws, sharecropp...

• SS24.US1.19c

  Analyze the ideologies, efforts, and impacts of civil rights reformers, groups, and civic organizations that challenged Jim Crow laws and violence at the turn o...