Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Describe the Civil Rights Amendments and their impact on ethnic minorities.
  • Discuss the importance of due process and equal procedure within Brown v. BOE in regards to the civil rights movement.
  • Explain how litigation and legislation assisted the Civil Rights movement in its quest for racial equality.
  • Analyze the role of the Supreme Court in promoting the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Discuss the impact of Martin Luther King within the Civil Rights movement.

This lesson correlates to ACOS5Trace the expansion of suffrage and its effect on the political system of the United States. and ACOS5E1suffrage for nonproperty owners, women, African Americans, and persons 18 years of age .

Under the Magnifying Glass

In this lesson, you will take a closer look at the early civil rights movement and its leaders.

W.E.B. Dubois
W. E. B. Dubois. Corbis. 2009. Discovery Education. 11 June 2009 <http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>

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