integrated groups are groups with both black and white Americans

Black Power is the political name for groups aiming for self determination for black Americans

self-determination is when a person or group is able to control their own life/lives

to be able to provide for yourself without any outside help is called self-sufficiency

separatism is the the belief that keeping people separate is the right thing to do; the Black Muslims believed in separating white and black Americans

The emergence of the Black Power movement

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

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Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

groups with both black and white Americans

when a person or group is able to control their own life/lives

to be able to provide for yourself without any outside help

Match the keywords to the correct definitions.

the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation (LCFO)

Whose slogan was ‘Black Power for Black People’?

Which event raised the profile of the Black Power Movement?

What did Stokely Carmichael and the Black Power movement support/encourage amongst black Americans?

How did many white Americans interpret the Black Power movement?

The assassination of who resulted in rapidly increasing support for a militant approach to the fight against racial injustice?

political name for groups for self determination for Black Americans

people who believe that those identified as 'white' are superior

a religious journey to a place of significance

Match the following keywords with the correct definitions.

What keyword describes the belief that keeping people separate is the right thing to do?

What group was also known as the Nation of Islam?

the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Malcolm X's changing policies went on to become the foundation of which of the following?

By the end of 1964, who was Malcolm X moving towards some level of alliance with?

The emergence of the Black Power movement

Lesson outcome

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