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Student Learning Map
- Topic:Civil Rights Movement
- Subject(s):Social Studies
- Days:14
- Grade(s):11
Key Learning:
All citizens in a democracy are entitled to share in the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Concept: The civil rights movement changed over time, becoming first more violent and then more protected by legislation.
Lesson Essential Question(s):Are all Americans entitled to the same civil rights?
What was segregation and how was it challenged in the courts and the classrooms in the 1950's?
What were some strategies used to obtain equal rights for all races?
What was the government's response to the Civil Rights Movement?
Lesson Essential Question(s):What impact did tthe Women's movement have on society, the economy,the government and the legal system? (A)What did Native Americans hope to accomplish with AIM?
How did the Latino campaign for economic and social equality eccect Non-Latino Americans?
Lesson Essential Question(s):Why might some people fight against equal rights?
How did Johnson's Great Society further the cause of Civil Rights?
How did black power and black separatism influence the Civil Rights movememnt?
Why do you think civil rights became violent ("long, hot summers")?
Are there any issues today that might cause this reaction?
Vocabulary:Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, segregation, sit-in, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, civil rights, boycott, nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience, enfranchisement, Voting Rights Act of 1965, fillibuster, Civil Rights Acts of 1964
Additional Info:
History of the Twentieth Century (DVD series), History Alive, Maps, American Odyssey Ch. 20-22, timeline, graphic organizer
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