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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 11

Rights Movements and Social Change

Learners analyze how the Black freedom struggle combined a long legal campaign with mass direct action and voter registration to win the landmark laws of 1964 and 1965, examine the strategic debates within the movement, and trace how women, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, people with disabilities and LGBTQ Americans adapted its strategies. The focus is on historical strategies, institutions and evidence, not on present-day policy positions.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 135 minutes
  • Rights movements check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, estimate, highlight a text, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Explain the NAACP's legal strategy from the 1930s to Brown v. Board and the 'massive resistance' it met.
  • Analyze how direct action and voter registration campaigns produced federal civil rights and voting rights laws, using primary sources and data.
  • Compare strategic debates within the movement (nonviolence and self-defense, integration and Black Power).
  • Evaluate how other movements adapted civil rights strategies, and with what results.

Lessons

  1. The legal campaign 5 steps3 practiceabout 33 min
  2. Direct action and federal law 5 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  3. Debates within the movement 5 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  4. Widening movements 5 steps4 practiceabout 34 min
  5. Rights movements check 9 questions at the end

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