Teach SQA Nat 5 Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA, 1918–1968, no prep needed!
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Part 7: Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA, 1918–1968
A study of the development of race relations in the USA during the years 1918–68, illustrating themes of ideas, identity and power.
Key issues and description of content
The ‘Open Door’ policy and immigration, to 1928
- The reasons for mass migration to the USA. The immigrant experience – arrival, living and working conditions, political participation. Changing attitudes towards immigrants.
- Government policy and the closure of the ‘Open Door’.
‘Separate but equal’, to 1945
- The ‘Jim Crow’ laws; White Terror; lynching; the attitudes and activities of the Ku Klux Klan; the migration of Black Americans to the North. The experience of Black Americans during World War Two.
Civil rights campaigns, to 1968
- Campaigns for civil rights after 1945 and their significance: Brown v Topeka; Montgomery Bus Boycott; Little Rock; Sit-Ins; Freedom Rides; Marches in Birmingham, Washington and Selma. Role of Martin Luther King. Response of state and federal authorities to these campaigns. Reasons for the growth of the Civil Rights Movement and an assessment of the impact of the campaigns on US society.
The ghettos and Black American radicalism
- Problems faced by Black Americans in the Northern ghettos. Ghetto riots of the 1960s. Beliefs and activities of Black radical protest movements and reasons for their growing support: Stokely Carmichael and ‘Black Power’; Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam; The Black Panthers. An assessment of the impact of Black American radical protest on US society.
References for Part 7: Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA, 1918–1968
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