1. Civil Liberties Organizations of the 1920’s
Responses to the Attacks on Civil Liberties
American Civil Liberties Union
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Anti-Defamation League
Universal Negro Improvement Association

2. Teacher Preparation Copy 1-per-student, back-to-back:
Attacks on Civil Liberties Readings
Civil Liberties Organizations/Bumper Sticker
After the students complete “Attacks on Civil Liberties” review the events with the students.
Review the PowerPoint Presentation with the students. It will review the directions for the activity.

3. Warm-Up: Complete the Worksheet:

4. CA Standards
11.5.2: Analyze the international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil liberties, including the Palmer Raids, Marcus Garvey's "back-to-Africa" movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas and the responses of organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Anti-Defamation League to those attacks.

5. Objective
Students will be able to analyze the responses to the attacks on civil liberties during the 1920’s by creating a bumper sticker.

6. National Origins Act

7. Ku Klux Klan

8. Sacco and Vanzetti

9. The Scope’s Trial

10. The Palmer Raids

11. Activity Directions
You will be reading about organizations that were formed in the 1920’s to fight attacks on civil liberties and discrimination.
Each student in your group will teach the other group members about a specific organization while they take notes on the corresponding worksheet: Civil Liberties Organizations

12. STEPS Step 1: Handout the readings to each group member:
Person A = ACLU
Person B = NAACP
Person C = ADL
Person D =UNIA
Step 2: Read your assigned information and complete the corresponding chart: Civil Liberties Organizations
Step 3: You will now take turns teaching the other group members about your assigned organization as they complete the chart.
Please do not simply read your notes, explain your topic in detail!
Remember: The best way to learn is to TEACH!

14. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Date Founded: 1920
Founder: Roger Baldwin
Purpose/Goals: Began as an organization to fight to stop discrimination against immigrants. Defends people who have been denied rights in the past including people of color; women; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people; prisoners; and people with disabilities.
Strategies Used: litigation (lawsuits) & lobbying (influencing decisions made by the government)

15. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Date Founded: 1909
Founder: W.E.B. Du Bois
Purpose/Goals: to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race. to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
Strategies Used: litigation (lawsuits), legislation (laws), educate/inform

16. The Anti-Defamation League ADL
Defamation an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
Date Founded: 1913
Founder: Order of B'nai B'rith
Purpose/Goals: to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.
Strategies Used: ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all with policy makers the media and the public.

17. Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Date Founded: 1914
Founder: Marcus Garvey
Purpose/Goals: a provisional government lead by a spiritual ruling governing body that is established for the purpose of the general uplift of the Black race. Sought to empower blacks worldwide toward economic, religious, psychological, and cultural independence
Strategies Used: Promoted “Back to Africa” separatist movement

18. Wrap-Up

19. Ticket-Out-The-Door