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Learning objective 5.1: Analyze the challenges associated with defining how strongly a government should act to help secure civil rights

Web Link 5.1: Patrick Henry's Speech
Description: Patrick Henry's famous speech on Liberty

Learning objective 5.2: Trace the struggles to secure civil rights for people with disabilities, African Americans, and women

Video 5.1: I want to vote, so why is New York making it so hard for people with disabilities?
Description: The challenges faced by voters with disabilities when trying to register to vote

Web Link 5.2: NAACP photographs of civil rights marches, demonstrations, and lobbying activities to promote civil rights legislation at the national and local levels
Description: First-hand pictures of the NAACP protests of the 50s and 60s

Learning objective 5.3: Explain the dangers associated with the NAACP’s decision to use the courts to make social change

Web Link 5.5: International Civil Rights Walk of Fame: Rosa Parks
Description: Rosa Parks' Life including consequences of participating in civil rights movement

Learning objective 5.4: Evaluate the role of all three branches of the federal government in changing policy on the ground to desegregate America’s public schools

Web Link 5.4: 14th Amendment, Then and Now
Description: Assesing the impact of the 14th Amendment

Learning objective 5.5 Contrast the tactics employed by individuals working to secure civil rights in the area of racial equality to the tactics of those acting to secure gender and sexual equality

Web Link 5.3: Brown v. Board of Education
Description: Video and Associated Documents with the Brown v. Board decision

Video 5.2: Separate but NOT Equal
Description: "Visit Little Rock Central High School and learn how the federal government helped integration."

Learning objective 5.6: Evaluate the ways the diversity of Americans’ identities shapes efforts to secure civil rights in the twenty-first century

Web Link 5.6: Woman Suffrage. Pickets at White House
Description: Photo of Suffrage Protest at the White House in 1917

Web Link 5.7: What is the complete text of the Equal Rights Amendment?
Description: The actual text of the failed ERA

Video 5.3: Title IX
Description: The benefits of Title IX for women