Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Later Years (1965-1968)

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

6

Overview

This collection includes photographs, documents, and objects to tell the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

SS10.6.9

Critique major social and cultural changes in the United States since World War II.

UP:SS10.6.9

Vocabulary

  • Brown vs. Board of Education
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Freedom Rides
  • Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March
  • Motown
  • AM/FM radio
  • protest songs
  • demonstrations
  • genre
  • political assassinations
  • latchkey children
  • Civil Rights Movement

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The key figures involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
  • The major social and cultural changes that occurred in the United States post WWII.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Critique multiple points of view to explain the ideas and actions of individuals and ethnic groups to gain equality.
  • Cite evidence to support changes in social and cultural traditions using primary and secondary sources.
  • Evaluate the contribution of technology and mass methods of communication to influence people, places, ideas, and events.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There were important the social and cultural changes that occurred in the U.S. after WWII.

CR Resource Type

Informational Material

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

Custom

Resource Provider other

Smithsonian Learning Lab
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