Alabama Social Studies SS24.US2.10d
The Standard
- SS24.US2.10
- Evaluate the influence of events, organizations, and individual actions on the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement nationally.
Summarize the political, economic, and physical means by which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement sought to limit its achievements.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify how opponents used government power, threats to jobs and housing, and violence to resist civil rights gains. They explain how these actions slowed voting rights and desegregation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how a filibuster delayed a bill, a firing discouraged voter registration, and an attack on Freedom Riders threatened desegregation. They can connect each action to the change it tried to stop.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think opposition meant only mob violence and miss firings, evictions, and delays in Congress. They may assume a court ruling or new law ended resistance right away.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Label a filibuster, firing a voter registration volunteer, and attacking a Freedom Rider as government action, economic pressure, or violence. Explain how one could slow change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print three event cards: a civil rights bill filibuster, a worker fired for trying to register, and a Freedom Rider attack; sort by tactic.
Write two sentences: How could firing one voter registration volunteer discourage other people from trying to vote?
Give students a bingo grid of tactics; read short scenarios about poll taxes, evictions, and bus attacks for them to match.
Compare a 1960s Alabama literacy test question with a current voter registration form; identify which requirement was used to deny voting rights.
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Related Standards
- SS24.5.12a
Describe ways in which the Civil Rights Movement sought to create change.
- SS24.5.12d
Summarize how opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.
- SS24.AS.16b
Identify ways in which opponents of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama sought to limit its success.
- SS24.US2.10
Evaluate the influence of events, organizations, and individual actions on the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement nationally.
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