interstate is when a service exists between states - for example, buses travelling between states

direct action is the use of demonstrations or protest to achieve a goal, rather than negotiation

integrated groups are groups with both black and white Americans

Freedom rides: protests and progress for civil rights (1961)

History

Segregation and discrimination in the USA

Civil rights organisations in the 20th century

Progress in education, 1954-60

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-6)

Martin Luther King Jr and the early civil rights movement

Early opposition to the civil rights movement

The changing position of black Americans by 1960

Greensboro and the sit-in movement

The James Meredith case (1962)

The peace marches (1963) and Freedom Summer (1964)

The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)

Reasons why the civil rights movement was more successful from 1960 to 1965

The role of Malcolm X in the civil rights movement

The emergence of the Black Power movement

The Black Panther Party

The riots of 1965-67 and the Kerner Report (1968)

King's campaign in the North

How successful was the civil rights movement by 1975?

French Indochina

Containment and the Domino Theory

Vietcong resistance

Gulf of Tonkin incident

The Tet Offensive

US involvement in Vietnam

The effect of Vietnamisation on US policy in Vietnam

The expansion of the war into Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam, 1969-1972

Opposition to the Vietnam War in the US

Support for the Vietnam War in the US

Changing US policy in Vietnam, 1969-1972

Peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War, 1968-1972

The Paris Peace agreement, 1973

US weaknesses in the Vietnam War

North Vietnamese strengths in the Vietnam War

Impact of the Vietnam War

In this unit, pupils study a modern society and the issues that affected it in great depth over a shorter period. They learn about the key events, developments, people and stories that shaped this modern society over a period of around twenty to thirty years.

Modern depth studies

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

{{ }} is when a service exists between states.


all interstate transport facilities were to desegregate

transport services across the south were to desegregate

What was the outcome of the Supreme Court upholding the Boynton v. Virginia case?

‘Bull’ Connor gave all police officers the day off.

No one knew what time they were arriving.

The Freedom Riders had said they did not need it.

Why did the Freedom Riders have no police protection when they arrived in Birmingham?

Which President sent in US troops to protect the Freedom Riders?

By how much did membership of CORE increase following the Freedom Rides?

In which area was one of the buses was firebombed by a mob of nearly 200 racist white Americans?

To sit somewhere and refuse to move as a form of protest is know as a {{ }}

To {{ }} means to stop people being separated or kept apart by force. 

Four black students sit at a ‘white-only’ lunch counter in Woolworth’s.

300 students join the sit-in at Woolworth’s, Greensboro.

Sit-ins spread to 55 cities across 13 states.

Dining facilities across the south were being desegregated.

Starting with the earliest, place these events into chronological order.

Which organisation was founded at Shaw University, North Carolina, in 1960?


In which two of the following events did SNCC play a leading role?

 Which organisation did Stokely Carmichael and some other leaders of SNCC join in the late 1960s?

Freedom rides: protests and progress for civil rights (1961)

Lesson outcome

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