Appendix B
The Oklahoma State C3 Standards for Social Studies that apply to this unit are as follows:
Content Standard 5: The student will analyze foreign and domestic policies during the Cold War, 1945 to 1975
4: Cite specific textual and visual evidence to analyze the major events, personalities, tactics and effects of the Civil Rights Movement.
- Assess the effects of President Truman’s decision to desegregate the United States armed forces, and the legal attacks on segregation by the NAACP and Thurgood Marshall, the Unites States Supreme Court decisions in the cases of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and George McLaurin, and the differences between de jure and de facto segregation.
- Compare and contrast segregation policies of “separate but equal,” disenfranchisement of African Americans through poll taxes, literacy tests, and violence; and the sustained attempts to dismantle segregation including the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, the Oklahoma City lunch counter sit-ins led by Clara Luper, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the Birmingham church bombing, the adoption of the 24th Amendment, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the assassination of Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr.
- Compare and contrast the view points and the contributions of civil rights leaders and organizations linking them to events of the movement including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his I have a Dream speech, Malcolm X, NAACP, SLC, CORE, SNCC, and the tactics used at different times including civil disobedience, non-violent resistance, sit-s, boycotts, marches and voter registration drives.
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