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Georgia Performance Standards:
Element: SSUSH20.c
Describe the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis.
Element: SSUSH21.b
Describe the impact television has had on American culture, including the Presidential Debates (Kennedy/Nixon, 1960), news coverage of the Civil Rights movement.
Element: SSUSH22.c
Explain Brown v. Board of Education and efforts to resist the decision.
Element: SSUSH22.d
Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and his I have a dream speech.
Element: SSUSH22.e
Describe the causes and consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Element: SSUSH23.b
Describe the political impact of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy including the impact on Civil Rights legislation.
Element: SSUSH23.c
Explain Lyndon Johnson's Great Society including the establishment of Medicare.
Element: SSUSH23.d
Describe the social and political turmoil of 1968 to include the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and the events surrounding the Democratic National Convention.
Element: SSUSH24.a
Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) tactics, including sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing composition.
Element: SSUSH24.f
Describe the rise of the conservative movement as seen in the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater (1964) and the election of Richard M. Nixon (1968).
Element: SSUSH25.b
Explain the impact of Supreme Court decisions on ideas about civil liberties and civil rights including such decisions as Roe v. Wade (1973 and the Bakke decision on affirmative action).
