Learning Objectives
- Understand that securing civil rights requires both actions by individuals and groups to claim them and actions by governments to secure and protect them.
- Trace the history of racial segregation in America and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which laid the foundation for later struggles to secure civil rights.
- Explain efforts to end legal segregation, the strategies used, and their successes and failures.
- Trace the history of efforts to secure civil rights for American women.
- Evaluate the ways the diversity of Americans’ identities shapes efforts to secure civil rights in the twenty-first century.