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Year 11

USA: why was the civil rights movement more successful from 1960 to 1965?

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In this unit, pupils learn about the growing number and diversity of civil rights campaigns in the early 1960s. They learn about sit-ins, the Freedom rides, the peace marches and Freedom Summer, and the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge about the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s that they developed in the previous key stage 4 unit. Knowledge of other examples of protest which achieved change, is also beneficial here, such as that built in year 9 when looking at the fight for female suffrage in Britain. This unit prepares units for the next key stage 4 unit, where knowledge of the success of peaceful protest is contrasted with emerging trends towards more violent or militant action.

  1. Greensboro and the sit-in movement
  2. Freedom rides: protests and progress for civil rights (1961)
  3. The James Meredith case (1962)
  4. The peace marches (1963) and Freedom Summer (1964)
  5. The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)
  6. Reasons why the civil rights movement was more successful from 1960 to 1965

  • Pupils know that the civil rights movement emerged in the 1950s.
  • Pupils know that early civil right movements used non-violent direct action to push for change.
  • Pupils know that by 1960, Martin Luther King had become a leading civil rights activist.
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