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Peer reviewedDreyfuss, Elisabeth T. – Update on Law-Related Education, 1988
Presents four strategies for teaching secondary students about equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. To be taught by the classroom teacher or a visiting lawyer, these strategies use such methods as a panel discussion and examination of Fourteenth Amendment court cases to accomplish their goals. (GEA)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Equal Protection, Law Related Education, Lawyers
Peer reviewedMinor, Gary – OAH Magazine of History, 1989
Incorporates material from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's into the high school curriculum as part of a unit on the Reconstruction Era. Discusses the background and passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the beginning of Jim Crow laws as precursors to the Civil Rights Movement. (KO)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil War (United States), Lesson Plans
Peer reviewedWilliams, Mary Louise; And Others – Update on Law-Related Education, 1988
Presents seven lesson plans for secondary school students. Titles include "Civil Rights in the 19th and 20th Centuries"; "Tyranny of the Majority"; "Equality Under Law"; "Voting Rights: Key to Equal Rights?"; "Hispanics! Immigration! Reform?"; "Unincorporation"; and "Indians and the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation
Peer reviewedMueller, Jean West; Schamel, Wynell Burroughs – OAH Magazine of History, 1989
Provides a lesson plan for focusing on the legal struggle to secure personal liberties during the age of Reconstruction. Analyzes the Fourteenth Amendment and a petition from the citizens of Cleveland, Tennessee, in order to identify the methods of change at the federal level and the limitations of such action. (KO)
Descriptors: Black History, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil War (United States)
Download full textAmerican Bar Association, Chicago, IL. Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship. – 1988
The second in a special four-part series of law-school partnership handbooks on constitutional themes, this document focuses on equality. "Equality--the Forgotten Word" (J. A. Hughes) discusses what has been considered the U.S. Constitution's one flaw, its failure to abolish slavery, and the remedy to that flaw, the Fourteenth Amendment.…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law
American Bar Association, Chicago, IL. Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship. – 1987
The third in this special series on constitutional themes, this document focuses on justice. "Due Process: What Is It?" (P. McGuire) examines the concept of due process as provided in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and provides lesson plans for a five-day unit on that topic. "Making Government Fair" (G. Galland) explains…
Descriptors: Accountability, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Curriculum Enrichment
Rosenblum, Warren; And Others – 1989
The purpose of this lesson packet is to raise issues about student rights of free expression in public schools. Included are preparatory reading material and two classroom simulation activities. The lessons are based on the U.S. Supreme Court case of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, in which a Missouri high school principal and school district were sued by…
Descriptors: Censorship, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Due Process
