Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.16a
The Standard
- SS24.AS.16
- Explain how major Alabama civil rights campaigns brought about federal action and the resulting expansion of civil and human rights.
Describe how civil rights campaigns in Alabama were led by a coalition of local, grassroots organizations and national civil rights leaders and organizations.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Civil Rights
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Identify the local groups and national partners behind civil rights campaigns in Alabama. Explain what each group did and how they worked together in a campaign such as Birmingham's 1963 protests.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights organized in Birmingham before Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joined the campaign. They can give one concrete contribution from each group.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may credit King alone for the Birmingham campaign and overlook the residents who organized before he arrived. They may think local organizers simply followed orders from national leaders.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In three sentences, name one job the Birmingham group did, one job the national group did, and why they worked together.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand out four fact cards about Shuttlesworth, the Birmingham group, King, and the national group; students place them on a local-to-national campaign diagram.
Ask, 'Why did Birmingham organizers invite King and his organization after they had already begun boycotts?' Require one reason tied to each group's work.
Sort cards reading 'organized local boycotts,' 'brought national staff,' and 'planned Birmingham marches' into local, national, or shared work.
Pair a mock school food-drive flyer with a Feeding America webpage; students list one task local volunteers handle and one resource a national network provides.
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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.
- SS24.5.12c
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.
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