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Truman's Commission on Civil Rights

Lesson Author
Whipple, Susan
Course(s)
U. S. History
Required Time Frame
Two hours
Subject(s)
Civil Rights
Grade Level(s)
9
10
11
12
Lesson Abstract
Students will read a section from To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights and analyze the directions under the executive order and the interpretation by the committee of what they were supposed to accomplish.
Description

Students will read a section from To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights and analyze the directions under the executive order and the interpretation by the committee of what they were supposed to accomplish.

District, state, or national performance and knowledge standards/goals/skills met
  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3
    Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
Secondary materials (book, article, video documentary, etc.) needed