Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.16c
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 civil rights leaders and foot soldiers in Alabama, and explain their contributions to fostering change in the state.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Civil Rights
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students name organizers and grassroots workers in Alabama's civil rights campaigns. They explain what each person did and how those actions helped bring change in Montgomery or Selma.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students explain how Jo Ann Robinson's leaflets helped launch the Montgomery bus boycott and how Georgia Gilmore's food sales helped fund it. They connect Amelia Boynton Robinson's organizing in Selma to the fight for voting rights.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may describe Rosa Parks as someone who acted alone, rather than a longtime organizer. They may credit change to a single speech or march and overlook the people who printed leaflets, raised money, and kept campaigns going.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one action by Georgia Gilmore in Montgomery and one by Amelia Boynton Robinson in Selma. Explain how each action helped a civil rights campaign.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
On a printed Alabama map, place cards for the Montgomery boycott and Selma marches, then add labeled cards for participants' actions.
Ask: What did Georgia Gilmore's food sales contribute that Jo Ann Robinson's leaflets could not?
Play a card match pairing Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, Georgia Gilmore, and Amelia Boynton Robinson with their actions and results.
Print your county's voter registration instructions; have students list two current steps and compare them with barriers Selma residents faced.
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Related Standards
- SS24.5.12e
Identify Alabamians who contributed to concurrent civil rights movements in the United States during the decades following World War II.
- SS24.5.12b
Trace the chronology of civil rights events in Alabama and across the nation, and summarize how they impacted one another.
- 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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