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- Explain and summarize the historical origins of Civil Rights in the nation.
- Review the role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the courtroom and how it efforts eventually led to segregation being declared unconstitutional in the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education.
- Summarize those key political, economic, and social changes that transformed the civil rights movement in the post-Brown era, including the use of civil disobedience, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a changing Supreme Court, the controversy over affirmative action, and the persistent problem of black unemployment and poverty.
- Explain the civil rights needs of other minorities in America--Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans--as well as trace the progress (or lack of progress) associated with meeting those needs.
- Trace the history of women's rights in America and include such specific issues as the ERA, sexual discrimination and harassment in the workplace, and single-sex education.
- Review the civil rights needs of the disabled and summarize the type of progress the disabled have made in recent years.
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