Alabama Social Studies SS24.US2.14a
The Standard
- 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.
Explain how the Civil Rights Movement inspired other movements for civil and human rights, and describe the contributions of groups and individuals to these movements.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how civil rights sit-ins, marches, and boycotts shaped women's, Chicano, and disability rights organizing. They name people and groups in these movements and describe the changes they sought.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can connect the United Farm Workers' grape boycott and the Section 504 sit-in to earlier civil rights tactics. They can explain what Dolores Huerta and Judy Heumann did and how their goals differed.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think women's rights activism began with the Civil Rights Movement, though it began much earlier. They may also assume every movement using a boycott or sit-in wanted the same change.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did the grape boycott or the Section 504 sit-in use a tactic seen in earlier civil rights protests? Name one organizer, their group, and the change they wanted.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs photo and caption cards for Greensboro sit-ins, the 1977 Section 504 sit-in, and the grape boycott; sort by tactic and goal.
Ask students to write: How did the grape boycott and a lunch counter sit-in use public pressure differently, and what did each demand?
Match Dolores Huerta to the grape boycott, Judy Heumann to the Section 504 sit-in, and Betty Friedan to NOW's equal rights campaigns.
Students inspect the school entrance and sketch how someone using a wheelchair would enter, then connect their sketch to Section 504 protests.
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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.S.11b
Describe how social movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, have created change throughout the history of the United States.
- 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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