Friday 1/31 & Monday 2/3: Civil Rights 3.10 Social Movements & Equal Protection

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:

Activity #1: Civil Rights Break Up

In each of your groups, you will be presenting on one of the topics from Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.  In order to do this, we will create a poster with the following information: Who was involved, What happened or what is it, Why it happened, When and Where it happened.  Then we will present to the class.  Here are the topics we will look at:

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. The Board of Education
• LGBTQ Issues
• Voting including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments
• Affirmative Action
• Americans with Disabilities Act

Then we will Present!

Activity # 2:

Exam Review