Voting Rights: Selma to Today

FILMS:Selma (2014) and Eyes on the Prize (1987)

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What should students know or understand at the completion of the unit or lesson?

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Socratic seminar questions (use sub-questions to help elicit student responses as necessary):

List all of the important indicators of achievement (important people, places, and events) and vocabulary that students will need to know at the conclusion of the lesson.

Activist: A person who is fighting for a cause, usually related to social justice.

Civil Rights: Rights and privileges that protect individuals’ personal freedoms from governments, social organization, and governments.

Civil Rights Movement: Mass protest against racial segregation, discrimination, and voter suppression that took place in the American south mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.