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  1. History Assessments
  2. Contextualization
  3. Civil Rights Era and Cold War Culture
  4. Civil Rights Movement in Context
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Contextualization, Background Knowledge, Periodization
Time Period: Civil Rights Era and Cold War Culture, The New Deal and World War II
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  • Rubric & Student Responses

Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Cold War Foreign Policy
  • Women's Rights
  • Labor History
  • The Conservation Movement
  • Immigration
  • Mexican American Rights
  • Native American Rights

Civil Rights Movement in Context

This assessment measures students’ ability to contextualize two historical documents and place them in the correct chronological order. Document A is a 1936 letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP. Document B is a 1957 letter from Daisy Bates, a NAACP representative in Arkansas, to Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. The assessment draws on students' knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement but in a way that taps more than just the recall of facts and dates. Students must show that they have a broad understanding of how the Civil Rights Movement unfolded and that they can actively use historical information to place the two documents in context.

NAACP letter

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