Unit: Civil Rights
Time Allotted: 2 weeks
Clarifying State Standards:
•8.H.2.2- Summarize how leadership and citizen actions influenced the outcome of key conflicts in North Carolina and the United States.
•8.C&G.2.1- Evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches used to effect change in North Carolina and the United States.
•8.C&G.2.2- Analyze issues pursued through active citizen campaigns for change.
•8.C&G.2.3- Explain the impact of human and civil rights issues throughout North Carolina and United States history.
Essential Understandings:
Students will understand that …
Essential Questions:
Students will know…
Events that impacted citizen actions to human and civil rights injustices:
•Emmett Till
•Medgar Evers
•16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
•Bloody Sunday
•Watts Riots
•The Southern Manifesto
Citizen Groups Reactions to human and civil rights injustices:
•Rosa Park/ Bus Boycott
•Little Rock Nine
•March on Washington
•Greensboro Sit-In
Unfair laws towards voting, education, sports, pay and societal resources promoted citizen campaigns for change. (Equal Pay Act, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Brown v Board of Education)
Students will be able to …
Time Allotted: 2 weeks
Clarifying State Standards:
•8.H.2.2- Summarize how leadership and citizen actions influenced the outcome of key conflicts in North Carolina and the United States.
•8.C&G.2.1- Evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches used to effect change in North Carolina and the United States.
•8.C&G.2.2- Analyze issues pursued through active citizen campaigns for change.
•8.C&G.2.3- Explain the impact of human and civil rights issues throughout North Carolina and United States history.
Essential Understandings:
Students will understand that …
- Citizen groups took various actions to take a stance against a variety of unfair practices including segregation, disenfranchisement, gender inequality, and racism.
- Civil Rights organizations led citizen action that caused social, political, and economic change on the local, state and national level.
- The Civil Rights Movements used civil disobedience as one of the various approaches to incite change on the legal and societal levels.
- The Civil Rights Movement includes citizen actions to prompt change in society that is seen in society today.
Essential Questions:
- How do citizens actions influence change?
- How do underrepresented groups react to legal and societal mistreatment?
- How effective are protest to effecting change.
Students will know…
- Grassroots, civil disobedience, segregation, disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, Black Code
- Citizen groups took actions against accepted societal discriminations like Jim Crow and Black Codes that created segregation.
- Civil Rights leaders influence citizen action to change unjust societal norms.
- Civil Rights organization were responsible for facilitating and training individuals to participate in nonviolent protests against unjust laws. (SNCC, SCLC, Freedom Riders, NAACP, Black Panthers, NOW, CORE)
Events that impacted citizen actions to human and civil rights injustices:
•Emmett Till
•Medgar Evers
•16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
•Bloody Sunday
•Watts Riots
•The Southern Manifesto
Citizen Groups Reactions to human and civil rights injustices:
•Rosa Park/ Bus Boycott
•Little Rock Nine
•March on Washington
•Greensboro Sit-In
Unfair laws towards voting, education, sports, pay and societal resources promoted citizen campaigns for change. (Equal Pay Act, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Brown v Board of Education)
Students will be able to …
- Interpret acts, laws and societal norms to determine how certain groups were treated unfairly or unjustly.
- Analyze how citizens’ power can effectively make changes in laws and society.
- Compare various methods used to protest unfair laws.