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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 10

Civil Rights

From Brown v. Board to equal rights for many groups

What your child practices

The Long Civil Rights Movement from Brown v. Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act, its leaders and methods, and the movements it inspired, including the women's movement and the American Indian Movement, founded in Minneapolis in 1968.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 7.4.18.4; 7.5.25.2; 7.5.24.1 · the Long Civil Rights Movement, the American Indian Movement and the women's rights movement, and groups that fought injustice

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Brown v. Board (1954) ended legal school segregation. Sit-ins, boycotts and marches used peaceful protest.
  2. Laws followed: the Civil Rights Act (1964), the 24th Amendment banning poll taxes, and the Voting Rights Act (1965).
  3. Other movements grew from it, like the women’s movement and the American Indian Movement (Minneapolis, 1968).

Example: What did the 24th Amendment (1964) ban? Some states charged people money to vote. The amendment banned these poll taxes in federal elections. Answer: poll taxes in federal elections

Civil Rights in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 9 of 10 in 7th grade Social Studies, after The Cold War and before The Civil War.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why did progress on economic equality come more slowly than equality under the law?

    • courts banned economic change
    • laws changed faster than gaps in wealth, jobs and housing
    • everyone already earned the same
    • no laws were passed

  2. Question 2

    The marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 were for…

    • voting rights
    • lower taxes
    • the space program
    • a new canal

  3. Question 3

    The American Indian Movement worked for…

    • ending voting
    • Native rights and fair treatment
    • more mining
    • closing schools

  4. Question 4

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for change through…

    • secession
    • armed revolt
    • nonviolent protest
    • staying silent

  5. Question 5

    De facto segregation means separation…

    • only in the military
    • that never happened
    • by custom, housing patterns or practice rather than by law
    • required by written law

  6. Question 6

    Malcolm X, a leader based in Harlem, stressed…

    • leaving the United States for Europe
    • Black pride, self-reliance and self-defense
    • ending all schools
    • rule by a king

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