Alabama Social Studies SS24.S.11b
The Standard
- SS24.S.11
- Explain why social movements form, and identify the factors that produce large-scale social change as a result of these movements.*
Describe how social movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, have created change throughout the history of the United States.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Social Issues and Social Change
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people organized, protested, and pressed officials to change laws and everyday practices. They use examples from different periods, including the Civil Rights Movement, to describe what changed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can connect a movement’s actions to a specific result, such as bus boycotts and the end of bus segregation in Montgomery. They can explain why a new law did not end discrimination right away.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may credit one leader or one march for a change that took years of organizing and court cases. They may assume every movement used the same tactics or that passing a law solved the problem.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: What did people do during the Montgomery bus boycott, and what changed afterward? Name one action and one result.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing a suffrage march, the 19th Amendment, a lunch-counter sit-in, and the Civil Rights Act; have them connect actions to changes.
Ask: Why did the Montgomery bus boycott last more than a year, and how did that sustained pressure differ from one speech?
Run a timeline relay with 1830s antislavery petitions, the 1913 suffrage parade, the 1936 Flint strike, and 1960 Greensboro sit-ins; then match outcomes.
Show a wheelchair-accessible bus photo and an ADA transit excerpt; ask students to connect disability rights protests to bus access today.
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Related Standards
- SS24.5.12a
Describe ways in which the Civil Rights Movement sought to create change.
- SS24.US2.10
Evaluate the influence of events, organizations, and individual actions on the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement nationally.
- SS24.US2.14a
Explain how the Civil Rights Movement inspired other movements for civil and human rights, and describe the contributions of groups and individuals to these mov...
- SS24.5.12
Outline key events and campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement and identify significant organizations and their contributions within the Movement.
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