American Democracy and the Promise of Justice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. What we are Doing (Action Process)
  3. Rationale
  4. Content Background
  5. Unit Objectives
  6. Topic One
  7. Topic Two
  8. Topic Three
  9. Topic Four
  10. Topic Five
  11. Teaching Strategies
  12. Timeline: Voting Rights and Civil Rights
  13. Classroom Activities
  14. Resources
  15. Student Resources
  16. Teacher Resources
  17. Bibliography
  18. Appendix
  19. Notes

The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy

Cinde H. Berkowitz

Published September 2019

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Notes

  1. League of Women Voters www.lwv.org.
  2. Democracy and Distribution, Chapter 5.
  3. Declaration of Independence.
  4. Ibid.
  5. nccs.net (“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men,” declared President Lyndon B. Johnson when he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. All the participants in the bloody events at Selma, Alabama, which led up to that legislation, agreed with the president. “Voting is the foundation stone for political action,” announced Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for the civil rights demonstrators. (National Center for Constitutional Studies).
  6. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/creating-a-nation/a/the- federalist-papers.
  7. https://constitution.laws.com/three-fifths-compromise.
  8. www.gilderlehrman.org/node/301828.
  9. Ibid.
  10. https://www.law.cornell.edu › U.S. Constitution.
  11. Ibid.
  12. https://time.com › History › politics.
  13. www.our documents.gov.
  14. https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history>smithsonian institute.
  15. https://gilderlehrman.org/history-now/why-we-people-citizens-agents-constitutional- change.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Michael J. Klarman, Unfinished Business, p. 182.
  18. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act.
  19. Charles & Barbara Whalen, The Longest Debate, p.90.
  20. Robert Mann, The Walls of Jericho, p. 381.
  21. Whalen, Charles, and Barbara, The Longest Debate p. 125.
  22. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march.
  23. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act.
  24. Ibid.
  25. David Garrow, Protest at Selma p.66.
  26. https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/effects-shelby-county-v-holder.
  27. https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/education-outreach/curriculum-connections-summer-2013-special-edition.pdf.
  28. Ibid.
  29. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words, p.292.
  30. Dale Russakoff, The Prize, p.61.
  31. Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door: Fighting Economic Insecurity, 2020.
  32. League of Women Voters.
  33. Jane Mayer, Dark Money, p. 230.
  34. "Digital Public Library of America." Digital Public Library of America. Accessed August 12, 2019. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/voting-rights-act-of-1965/teaching-guide.
  35. Timeline- https://www.zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/explore-by-time-period.
  36. https://classroom.monticello.org/view/lesson-plan/75330./
  37. https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/martin-luther-king-jr-and-civil- rights-relevancy.
  38. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words, p.259.

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