Unpacked Content
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.
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
