Social Movements and Equal Protection ⚖️"Letter from Birmingham Jail" 👨🏿‍💼Brown v. Board of Education 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how constitutional provisions have supported and motivated social movements
• Explain how the Supreme Court has at times allowed the restriction of the civil rights of minority groups and at other times has protected those rights
• Explain how the government has responded to social movements

⏰ What We Did

• Take notes on the advances and setbacks of African American civil rights
• Analyzed MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
• Discussed the facts and precedent set by the Court in Plessy v. Ferguson and the overturning of Plessy by Brown v. Board of Education
• Examined the components of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Reviewed Shaw v. Reno through a argument comparison on majority-minority congressional districts

⚙️ Resources

• 3.8 Social Movements and Equal Protection, “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, Brown v. Board of Education
• Brown v. Board of Education Case Study