a federal government is a system of government where there is one central government that controls a collection of smaller state governments

desegregation is when segregation is ended

something is unconstitutional when it breaks the terms of a country's constitution, especially when it violates the rights given to individuals by the constitution

a school board is a group of individuals responsible for making decisions about schools in the local area

Progress in education, 1954-60

History

Segregation and discrimination in the USA

Civil rights organisations in the 20th century

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

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

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Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

breaks the terms of a country’s constitution

 a group responsible for making decisions about schools locally

Which civil rights organisation was involved in Brown v Topeka?

Schools were quick to follow the Supreme Court's order to desegregate.

Some schools refused to desegregate until they were eventually forced.

The KKK gained more members as people protested against the ruling.

Which of the following statements correctly describes the outcome of Brown v Topeka?

Which student turned up at Little Rock alone?

Which troops were sent in to escort and protect the Little Rock Nine?

The Little Rock Nine successfully enrolled on 25th September 1957.

All four high schools in Little Rock closed rather than desegregate.

All high schools in Little Rock immediately moved to desegregate.

 Students were educated at home for a year.

It set a precedent for challenging segregation at a federal level.

Which of the following statements correctly explain the impact of Eisenhower's enforcing of desegregation after the events at Little Rock?

Which of the following activists helped to found the NAACP?

when different groups of people are forcefully kept separate or apart

to have political and social freedom and equality

to kill someone for an offence without a trial

They resulted in the segregation of schools.

They had been introduced in every southern state, and some northern states.

 If a Black American was to break these laws, they could be lynched.

Which of the following correctly describes the impact of the Jim Crow laws?

Who was the President of the USA in both 1954 and 1957?

Segregation was legal if it was ‘separate but equal’.

Segregation was legal if it was 'separate but unequal'.

They chose to fight racial injustice in the courts.

They did sit-ins, marches and other forms of protests.

Starter Quiz

Which of the following activists helped to found the NAACP?