From Segregation to Sit-ins: the Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter
Era 9 (Post-war US), Standard 4: The struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties.
4A: The student understands the "Second Reconstruction" and its advancement of civil rights.
- Therefore the student is able to:
- Explain the origins of the postwar civil rights movement and the role of the NAACP in the legal assault on segregation.
- Evaluate the Warren Court's reasoning in Brown v. Board of Education and its significance in advancing civil rights.
- Explain the resistance to civil rights in the South between 1954 and 1965.
- Evaluate the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of various African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Americans, as well as the disabled, in the quest for civil rights and equal opportunities.
- Assess the reasons for and effectiveness of the escalation from civil disobedience to more radical protest in the civil rights movement.
