Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.16b
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.
Identify ways in which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Civil Rights
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify how Alabama officials, police, and white supremacist groups tried to stop marches, school integration, and voting. They connect each tactic to an Alabama example and explain what it aimed to prevent.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how George Wallace tried to block school integration and how state troopers attacked a voting rights march in Selma. They can explain how literacy tests kept Black citizens from registering to vote.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every opponent was a Klan member, overlooking elected officials and police. They may mistake literacy tests for fair reading checks rather than barriers to voting.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name two tactics used against civil rights efforts in Alabama. For each, give a specific example and the right it sought to limit.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort printed cards about Birmingham fire hoses, Selma troopers, and literacy tests by the tactic each shows.
Write two sentences explaining what George Wallace tried to stop at the University of Alabama and how he tried to stop it.
Match cards for Wallace at the schoolhouse door, Birmingham fire hoses, and literacy tests to integration, marching, and voting.
Examine a city march permit form and discuss how officials could apply its rules fairly or use them to block a march.
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Related Standards
- SS24.5.12d
Summarize how opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.
- 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.
- SS24.US2.10e
Describe how key Alabamians provided leadership, generated change, or demonstrated resistance to the Civil Rights Movement.
- SS24.US2.10d
Summarize the political, economic, and physical means by which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement sought to limit its achievements.
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