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You Need These Documents for Your
English Class:
Malcolm X
Autobiography
Rosa
Parks Interview
Martin
Luther King Jr - Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther
King Jr. - I Have a Dream Speech
Essential
Standards:
11.9.3
Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War
II -- the Vietnam War
11.9.4
List the effects of foreign policy on domestic
policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the
"nuclear freeze" movement).
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal
civil rights and voting rights.
11.10.2
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.
11.10.4
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.
11.10.5
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.
11.10.7
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.
11.11.1
Discuss the reasons for the nation's changing
immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration Act of 1965 and
successor acts have transformed American society.
11.11.3
Describe the changing roles of women in society as
reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the
changing family structure.
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