---
title: "SS5H6: America 1950–1975 Overview (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SS5H6
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SS5H6
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - grade-5
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# SS5H6: America 1950–1975 Overview

Describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: Grade 5, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/grade-5.md

## Expectations

- **SS5H6.a**: Analyze the effects of Jim Crow laws and practices.
- **SS5H6.b**: Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- **SS5H6.c**: Describe the impact on American society of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- **SS5H6.d**: Discuss the significance of the technologies of television and space exploration.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.