Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.15a
The Standard
- SS24.AS.15
- Evaluate the extent to which civil rights reformers in Alabama at the turn of the twentieth century successfully challenged the emergence of the Jim Crow South.
Describe the role of women reformers in promoting reform, including Margaret Murray Washington and Julia Tutwiler.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Civil Rights
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Margaret Murray Washington used her work at Tuskegee and Black women's clubs to support education and community needs. They describe how Julia Tutwiler pushed for women's schooling and better prison conditions.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students connect Washington to Tuskegee and Black women's clubs, and Tutwiler to women's schooling and prison reform. They explain who each effort helped and what barriers each woman faced.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may credit Tutwiler with leading Black women's clubs or mix up the two women's work. They may leave out Tutwiler's prison reform or overlook the racism Washington faced.
How to Assess It
- Use an exit ticket: Name one action Washington took and one action Tutwiler took. Who benefited from each?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four index cards labeled Tuskegee, Black women's clubs, women's schooling, and prison reform; have them sort the cards by reformer.
Ask students to write: How did the barriers Washington faced differ from those Tutwiler faced?
Play a matching game with cards showing each reformer's name, an action she took, and the people it helped.
Print a local college admissions page; have students compare its entry rules with the schooling barriers Washington and Tutwiler challenged.
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Related Standards
- SS24.US1.7a
Summarize the contributions of women reformers in the early to mid-nineteenth century who sought to expand political and educational opportunities for women.
- SS24.US1.7
Assess how women challenged their societal roles under the Cult of Domesticity through their participation in social movements prior to the Civil War.
- SS24.5.2c
Identify and describe examples of prison reform, including the abolition of the convict-lease system and leadership of Julia Tutwiler.
- SS24.US1.18d
Analyze the roles and differing viewpoints of female reformers and women’s organizations in guiding the women’s suffrage and temperance movements.
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