Alabama Social Studies SS24.US2.10b
The Standard
- SS24.US2.10
- Evaluate the influence of events, organizations, and individual actions on the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement nationally.
Analyze the extent to which the actions and campaigns of civil rights activists and organizations from 1954 to 1965 prompted federal measures to advance civil and human rights.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect civil rights campaigns from 1954 to 1965 to federal actions. They use dates and evidence to judge how much pressure activists created, while considering choices made by presidents, Congress, and courts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how Birmingham protests helped push debate over the 1964 Civil Rights Act and how Selma marches pressed Congress to pass the 1965 Voting Rights Act. They can name evidence for each link without claiming activists acted alone.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume a protest led directly to a law, with no debate or delay. They may mix up the 1964 law, which addressed segregation and job discrimination, with the 1965 law, which targeted voting barriers.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How much did the Selma marches help bring about the Voting Rights Act? Use one activist action and one federal action as evidence, then name another factor behind the law.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated cards for Birmingham, Selma, and federal actions; have them build a timeline and draw arrows showing supported connections.
Ask students to write: Would the Voting Rights Act have passed as quickly without Selma? Use two dated pieces of evidence.
Run a matching game with Little Rock, Birmingham, Selma, and federal responses; students explain each match before keeping the pair.
Pull a current city council agenda and ask where residents could press for a policy change, then compare that route with Selma.
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Related Standards
- SS24.US2.10
Evaluate the influence of events, organizations, and individual actions on the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement nationally.
- SS24.US2.14
Explain shifts in the scope of the Civil Rights Movement from the mid-1960s into the 1970s, including geographic regions, issues of focus, and participation.
- SS24.US2.10a
Identify and explain key events from 1945 to 1955 that brought about the emergence of a large-scale movement for civil rights.
- SS24.AS.16
Explain how major Alabama civil rights campaigns brought about federal action and the resulting expansion of civil and human rights.
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