SS.912.AA.3.4

Evaluate the relationship of various ethnic groups to African Americans’ access to rights, privileges and liberties in the United States.

Clarifications

Clarification 1: Instruction includes landmark United States Supreme Court Cases affecting African Americans (e.g., the Slaughter House cases, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Plessy v. Ferguson).

Clarification 2: Instruction includes the influence of white and black political leaders who fought on behalf of African Americans in state and national legislatures and courts.

Clarification 3: Instruction includes how organizations, individuals, legislation and literature contributed to the movement for equal rights in the United States (e.g., Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Carter G. Woodson, Henry Beard Delany, Emma Beard Delaney, Hiram Rhodes Revels).

Clarification 4: Instruction includes how whites who supported Reconstruction policies for freed blacks after the Civil War (white southerners being called scalawags and white northerners being called carpetbaggers) were targeted.

General Information
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: African American History
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
2100340: African-American History (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
2100336: African-American History Honors (Specifically in versions: 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))

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