Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.19d
The Standard
- SS24.US1.19
- Describe the emergence of the New South economy and Jim Crow era, and explain the corresponding efforts to secure civil rights by Black Americans after Reconstruction.
Describe the efforts of reformers to create greater educational and economic opportunities for Black Americans through the establishment of new institutions and organizations.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why Black reformers built schools and business groups when segregation limited access to education and jobs. They name an institution or organization and describe what it offered.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute taught academic and job skills. They can also explain how the National Negro Business League connected Black business owners, without claiming either effort ended segregation.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Tuskegee taught only farming and trades, or that a business league was a school. Some assume these efforts gave Black Americans equal access to jobs and education.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did Tuskegee Institute and the National Negro Business League each expand opportunity? Name one barrier that neither removed.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a Tuskegee course list and a National Negro Business League meeting notice; have them circle the skills and contacts each offered.
Ask students to write three sentences comparing how a school and a business network helped Black Americans earn a living.
Play a card match: pair Tuskegee, Atlanta University, and the National Negro Business League with the opportunities each offered.
Compare a community college course page with a chamber of commerce event page, then name a barrier Black applicants faced in 1900.
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