AS Unit 1 - Topic D5 Pursuing Life and Liberty: Equality in the USA, 1945-68

AS Unit 1 - Topic D5 Pursuing Life and Liberty: Equality in the USA, 1945-68 The struggle by black people in the USA for equal rights in the years between the end of the Second World War and the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. SECTION KEY QUESTIONS KEY EVENTS, KEY ACTIVITIES EXAM GROUPS/INDIVIDUALS PRACTICE 1. What can Jesse Owens’ Declaration of Independence Layers of inference diagram & Focus: INTRODUCTION story tell us? (1776) & US Constitution Cross-Referencing using films Source handling - & OVERVIEW (‘Gone with the Wind’, Birth of a Inference What impact did the Civil Slavery, Civil War (1861-65) & Nation, Within Our Gates), music - Cross- (a) Introduction - War have on Black President Abraham Lincoln (Strange Fruit) Referencing - Reliability The position in the Americans? Was it a war - Utility 1930s for Black to end slavery? Reconstruction (1866-77) Living Graph (overview hypothesis) Americans Why did ‘Reconstruction’ Segregation & Jim Crow Laws Mind Map Summaries (x2) – (b) Overview … give way to ‘Segregation’ Plessy V Ferguson (1896) Treatment of Black Americans in the c1600 – Present: during the late 19th South & North (late 19th/Early 20th Key Features, Key century? Ku Klux Klan & Lynching century) Events & Key People What factors led to NAACP & W.E.B. Du Bois Factors Table (focus reasons for improvements for Black improvement) & Diamond 9 (c) Background … Americans before the Booker T Washington (prioritise factors) 1860s-1830s: Second World War? From Civil War to Which individuals/groups A. Philip Randolph ‘Top Trump’ Flash Cards (Key Segregation played an important role? Individuals) Use to debate - Who did Marcus Garvey & UNIA (United most to help improve the position of 2 Weeks To what extent did life Negro Improvement Association) Black Americans? improve for Black Americans before the Joe Louis Period Chart (Summary) Second World War? Paul Robeson 2. What was the Social, World War 2 – Migration Mind Map & Focus: THE SEEDS OF Political, Economic and Acronym/Pneumonic (impact - Decoding Questions - Question Types (Explain or reach CHANGE, Legal position of blacks in March on Washington Movement WW2) a judgement) 1945-1955 different parts of the USA? - Concept focus James Farmer & CORE (Congress Comparison Table using - Paragraphing (PEE Technique) (a) The nature How, if at all, this position of Racial Equality) criteria (SPEL position in was changing? 1945 … North V South) Why was progress towards racial and extent of equality so slow in the period discrimination Sit-ins & boycotts Why were things beginning Factors Table (help and 1945-1955? (Edexcel p33 - and segregation Causation) [Walking Essay] … to change? (Consider: President Truman & ‘To secure hinder change) impact of the Second these rights’ report (see online) How far is it accurate to describe The social, World War, Cold War, 8Q Key Event Summary Black Americans as second class political and improving employment Segregation ended in armed (Brown Case) for importance citizens in the years 1945-55? economic position prospects, internal forces (1948) see ‘Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes’ (SAM 2007 – Key Features) [Plan of black citizens … Self & Peer Assess against migration) Mark Scheme] in the USA in the Adam Clayton Powell Mock Trial: Truman 1940s and early Why was progress slow? How far did the position of Black 1950s. Roy Wilkins & NAACP (National Americans improve in the years How important was the Association of the Advancement REVIEW 1945–55? (June 2009 & ATH - 1. Check/adjust Living Graph Change) (b) Signs of work of the NAACP? of Coloured People) (overview hypothesis) change by 1955. What was the importance 2. Complete Factors Table (help How accurate is it to say that the of Brown versus Board of Brown V Board of Education and hinder) & Diamond 9 (prioritise status of black people in the United Education (1954-55)? Topeka (1954) & Thurgood factors) States changed very little in the Marshall 3. ‘Top Trump’ Flash Cards (Key years 1945–55? (June 2010) 2 Weeks Individuals) –Debate ratings To what extent did 4. Continuum Line Debate – Extent To what extent was the opportunities for Black De jure & De facto change of Change by 1955. NAACP responsible for the Americans improve 5. Period Chart (Summary) successes of the civil rights between 1945 and 1955? Murder of Emmett Till (1955) campaign in the years 1945–57? (Jan 11)