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11.10 Students analyze the development of federal
civil rights and voting rights. - Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a
stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt's ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941,
and how African Americans' service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman's decision to end segregation
in the armed forces in 1948.
- 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.
- Describe the collaboration on legal strategy
between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education.
- 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.
- 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.
- Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting
Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to
the political process.
- Analyze
the women's rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women.
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