K-12 Educational Standards
Standards for Grade(s): 11
United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
5. Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies , and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities.
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California State Board of Education Content Standards
First Aired: 12/10/2007
57 minutes
Civil Rights leader Julian Bond looks at the social ramifications of school desegregation in the last 50 years since nine African-American students made history by enrolling in the then all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. (#13428)




