Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.17
The Standard
Explain the contributions of civil rights tourism to Alabama’s modern-day economy.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how visits to Alabama civil rights sites bring spending to nearby businesses. They connect that spending to jobs and local tax revenue, using named places as examples.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a visit to the Edmund Pettus Bridge to explain how a free site can still bring customers to Selma restaurants and hotels. They can distinguish money spent at a site from money spent nearby.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think a free memorial brings no economic benefit. They may assume all visitor spending goes to the historic site, or that every dollar spent stays in the local community.
How to Assess It
- Ask: A family visits the free Edmund Pettus Bridge and buys lunch in Selma. Explain one way that visit supports the local economy.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a Selma-to-Montgomery map and three mock receipts for lunch, a hotel, and admission; have them tally where the visitor money goes.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how a free civil rights site can bring customers to nearby businesses.
Give groups cards naming visitor purchases and recipients, such as a hotel stay and hotel workers; have them match and explain each pair.
Use a current Montgomery hotel listing and museum admission page to price a visit, then identify which payments go to local businesses.
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Related Standards
- SS24.3.3a
Locate state and national parks within Alabama and explain their historical and economic significance.
- SS24.AS.16c
Identify civil rights leaders and foot soldiers in Alabama, and explain their contributions to fostering change in the state.
- SS24.AS.21a
Describe ways in which Alabama’s geography contributes to the state’s present-day tourism industry.
- 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.
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