Advocating Civil and Voting Rights - 11th Grade US History
This Unit explores the Civil and Voting Rights Movements in allinement with the 11th grade California States Standards
11.10 Students analyze the development of Federal Civil Rights and Voting Rights
1. Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt’s ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans’ service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman’s decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.
2. Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209.
4. Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (eg. A Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream’ speech.
5. Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American
Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities.
6. Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (eg, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.
7. Analyze the women’s rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women.
11.10 Students analyze the development of Federal Civil Rights and Voting Rights
1. Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt’s ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans’ service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman’s decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.
2. Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209.
4. Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (eg. A Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream’ speech.
5. Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American
Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities.
6. Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (eg, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.
7. Analyze the women’s rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women.
Historic Essential Questions
The unit strived to answer the following essential questions
The unit strived to answer the following essential questions
- Should the popular opinion of the American citizen during the Civil Rights Movement have had an effect on the Supreme Court’s rulings on Civil Rights issues or should the Supreme Court have examined the Civil Rights issues based only on the Constitutional holdings of the case?
- How did the Civil and Voting Rights activists use protest strategies to affect political change? Would these protest strategies be affective today in causing political change for minority rights?
- How did the political actions of the legislators, courts, and presidents in regard to Civil and Voting Rights initiate the American citizens and minorities to bring about societal change for the everyday life of minorities?
- What impact did the Civil and Voting Rights Movements have on the social structure of Americans lives then and now?
- What relationship exists between suffrage and political change and the social revolutions of women in American society in the 1960s?
Big Ideas
The unit will considers the following big ideas
The unit will considers the following big ideas
- The Supreme Court’s decisions altered over time depending on the Public and Governmental opinions of minority groups and their constitutional rights.
- The combined, differing strategies used by Civil and Voting Rights advocates exhibit the powers of the citizens effective use of protest on government
policies. - The power of political activism for Civil and Voting Rights had an effect on the social lives of the American populace and our current ideals and way of life.
- The effective political activist of the Civil and Voting Rights Movements used strategic and emotional appeals to the populace and governmental leaders to convey the necessity for legislative and societal change in America.
- The effective social change of American society after the achievement of governmental support and legislation for Civil and Voting Rights did not result in immediate acceptance from all of the American citizens and was meet with protest and resistance which still has effects on society today.
Unit Assessments
Assessments that will be used to evaluate learning of big ideas
Assessments that will be used to evaluate learning of big ideas
- Timeline of Civil Rights Supreme Court rulings.
- Postcard on the civil rights legislation.
- Presentation on a Civil Right Activist leaders effect on the Civil Right Movement
- Analyze and write Compare and Contrast essay on the similarities and differences of the Declaration of Independence and the Declarations of Sentiment with a conclusion on How the views of the Declaration of Sentiment effected the roles of women in the 1960s.