Thursday, February 21, 2019

Day 14 - ASAP

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights


Learning Targets:  Students will be able to....
  • Explain how the U.S. Constitution protects individual liberties and rights.
  • Describe the rights protected in the Bill of Rights.
  • Explain the extent to which the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the First and Second Amendments reflects a commitment to individual liberty.
Through the U.S. Constitution, but primarily through the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens and groups have attempted to limit national and state governments to prevent them from infringing upon individual rights and from denying equal protection under the law. 

However, it has sometimes been argued that these legal protections have been used to slow reforms and restrict freedoms of others in the name of social order.

Opener:  ASAP

 No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
 - 14th Amendment - Ratified in 1868

Activity #1 -  Civil Rights Mini-Lecture
  • Reconstruction and Jim Crow
    • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
    • Brown v. Board of Ed (1954)
  • Suffrage and Civil Disobedience
    • Boycotts, sit-ins, marches
    • Montgomery, March on Washington, Birmingham 
  • Civil Rights Legislation 
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 
    • The Voting Rights Act of 1965 

 Activity #2 - Can you order these events?
  • Abolishing Slavery
  • Voting age changed to 18
  • Women granted the right to vote
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • 14th Amendment
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
Activity #3 - ASAP
Close:  Post questions regarding civil rights, Letter from Birmingham Jail, or the ACT here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15z33ZzvDy0cDCaCKkYCjXQcYksSVHeARHTGETG1itN8/edit?usp=sharing

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