11.10

Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.

WWII Movements for Equality

How did World War II serve to advance movements for equality at home and abroad? and How did the American government change because of World War II? Download Primary Source Set: WWII Movements for Equality

This inquiry set is designed to introduce 11th grade students to the ways in which World War II served to advance movements for equality.

Civil Rights Movements

How did various movements for equality build upon one another? Download Primary Source Set: Civil Rights Movements

This inquiry set examines how the various movements for equality in the mid twentieth century built upon and inspired each other. The chosen material represents the movements against the Vietnam War and the civil rights movements of women, Chicanos/as, American Indians, Asian Americans, LGBT Americans, African Americans, and people with disabilities.

Civil Rights Movements

The advances of the black Civil Rights Movement encouraged other groups— including women, Hispanics and Latinos, American Indians, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, LGBT Americans, students, and people with disabilities—to mount their own campaigns for legislative and judicial recognition of their civil equality.Students can use the question How did various movements for equality build upon one another? to identify commonalities in goals, organizational structures, forms of resistance, and members. Students may note major events in the development of these movements and the consequences.

Civil Rights Movements

This inquiry set examines how the various movements for equality in the mid twentieth century built upon and inspired each other. The chosen material represents the movements against the Vietnam War and the civil rights movements of women, Chicanos/as, American Indians, Asian Americans, LGBT Americans, African Americans, and people with disabilities.