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Social Change Movements 1950s-70s

This unit will explore social change in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s, covering topics like the anti-war movement, counterculture, civil rights movement, and women's liberation. It aims to address the key concept of continuity and change over time by examining how social movements culminated longstanding issues and their goals continue today. Students will learn about the leaders and events of each movement and understand that history involves complex groups with few absolutes. The significance of these movements fighting for disenfranchised populations cannot be understated, as their legacy continues to inspire future movements worldwide in the fight for equality.

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Social Change Movements 1950s-70s

This unit will explore social change in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s, covering topics like the anti-war movement, counterculture, civil rights movement, and women's liberation. It aims to address the key concept of continuity and change over time by examining how social movements culminated longstanding issues and their goals continue today. Students will learn about the leaders and events of each movement and understand that history involves complex groups with few absolutes. The significance of these movements fighting for disenfranchised populations cannot be understated, as their legacy continues to inspire future movements worldwide in the fight for equality.

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Unit Topic and Rationale


While our U.S. History course goes chronologically, my unit will specifically explore the
theme of social change from the 1950s through the 70s. Lesson topics will include the anti-war
movement, counterculture, the 26th amendment, the civil rights movement, the stonewall riots,
environmentalism, Caesar Chavez, AIM, and womens liberation. This will be unit nine, and it
will fall between unit 8, which explores the political and military events of the 1950s & 60s, and
unit ten, which begins with Nixon and carries through to the end of the 1980s.
The unit will primarily address CDE History standard 2: The key concepts of continuity
and change, cause and effect, complexity, unity and diversity over time. The lessons will
examine how this time period brought about dramatic social change. Students will understand
how the social movements were culminations longstanding issues and did not have formal
endings, their goals continue today. Students will be able to compare the movements and
understand how they were uniting or divisive forces. Students will be able to describe the leaders
and major events of each movement. Most importantly, students will understand that each
movement and its opposition were extremely complex groups. There are few good guys and
bad guys in history, and all heroes have faults and all villains have redeeming traits.
The significance of this topic cannot be understated. These movements fought for rights
and respect for many disenfranchised populations, and their leaders and methods would be
inspirational to many future movements in the U.S. and across the globe. Their fight for equality
is ongoing worldwide, and by analyzing their goals and impacts, everyone can have a better
understanding of how social change is created. It should be easy for students to connect the
achievements made by the social movements to their lives. Hopefully, in addition to seeing the
connection between the effects of the movements to their lives, students will also be able to
compare and evaluate the strategies used by the movements. Its my greatest goal that this be an
inspirational unit, in which students will consider their own desires for the future of the U.S. and
understand that it is well within their power to create social change.

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