Goals and Objectives
Students will learn about the various Non-violent Movements in the United States groups and individuals associated with them through the analyses of primary documents and will create comparative graphic organizers, comparing the organizations and their impact on the nation.
State Content and Common Core
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
11.10.2 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.
11.10.3 Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education.
11.10.4 Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., 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.
11.10.5. 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.
11.10.2 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.
11.10.3 Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education.
11.10.4 Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., 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.
11.10.5. 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.
Lesson Introduction
Teacher will ask what students have learned so far about the Civil Rights movement and what happened during the non-violent era of the civil rights movement .
Vocabulary
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
Southern Christian Leadership conference
March on Birmingham
Sit-Ins
Freedom Riders
Southern Christian Leadership conference
March on Birmingham
Sit-Ins
Freedom Riders
Content Delivery
Teacher will prepare students for their later project about the civil rights movement by having students engage with varied primary sources from the Civil Rights Movement in the South. These sources include Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, Video on Birmingham Marches, Video on Church Bombings, March on Washington, I have a Dream speech. Teacher will have the primary sources divided amongst various stations.
Student Engagement
Students will move from station to station analyzing the primary sources that are present at each. Students are to answer the 5 questions regarding their primary sources including a short summary of the Primary Sources.
Assessment
Students will turn in their responses and Teacher will check to see if students have grasped everything by checking completeness of answers with correct information.
Accommodation for ELL Striving Readers and special needs
English learners, striving readers and students with special needs will all benefit from this lesson as it uses varied instructional aides and guides to aid students with comprehension.