how did the position of african americans go from this... to this?

How did the position of African Americans

go from this... To this?

Civil Rights in AmericaC aim – to explain the turning points in the development of Civil Rights in America

B aim – to explain how Civil Rights have developed in America through turning points and key figures

A/A* aim – to assess how far Civil Rights really developed in America

• Today’s lesson – content of 100 years of Civil Rights in America from 1880 to 1980

• Thursday’s lesson – preparation for writing your preparatory coursework

• Summer holidays – write your preparatory coursework – this is due in on your first lesson with Mr Abbott. He needs to take them in and assess them quickly to work out your current levels in essay writing and source analysis so that he can teach you the actual coursework on Vietnam tailored to you so that you can gain the best mark you possibly can in your coursework.


B aim – to explain how Civil Rights have developed in America through turning points and key figures A/A* aim – to assess how far Civil Rights really developed in America

• Background • American Civil War 1861-1865• 13th Amendment officially ends slavery

1865• Reconstruction 1867 • Black Codes • Memphis riots 1866, New Orleans • Sharecropping • Laws vs. Reaction• KKK• Education, churches

Key points –

C – Turning point?B – Have Civil Rights developed through a Turning Point? Have they developed through a key figure?A – How far have Civil Rights really developed?

Miss Dennis

• 1880-1914• Lynching• Racism in the North and South • 1887-1891 – Jim Crow Laws• 1896 – a court case found the Jim Crow Laws

unconstitutional • Vote • Education• Jazz• Urbanisation• Atlanta Compromise, 1895, signed by a Civil Rights

leader Booker Washington said that if Southern blacks could work, get basic educational and economic opportunities, they would submit to white rule

• Du Bois – wanted full Civil Rights immediately through an African-American intellectual elite. Protested against lynching, Jim Crow and discimination and against ccolonisalism. Socialist.

• NAACP

Key points –


Miss Dennis

• WWI• Used it to ask for democracy • Some argued shouldn’t join in the

war effort • Segregated armed forces • Further urbanisation to work in

munitions factories in the North. Gained voting rights.

• Experienced less racist societies • Welcomed back as heroes• Chicago Race Riots. Returning white

soldiers felt that black Africans had taken their jobs and there was a riot in 1919.

Key points –


Pair Work

• 1920s - period of great prosperity in America and the 1930s a period of great poverty

• Black farmers and agricultural labourers suffered in the 1920s as despite it being a period of great prosperity this was mainly in industry and the cities – agriculture suffered from overproduction and not being able to obtain good enough prices for the goods that they had grown

• KKK and lynchings – there was a second wave of these • Black Americans suffered the most during the Great

Depression• The New Deal which was supposed to help matters by

making job creation schemes which Roosevelt (the new president) introduced were racist

• Evicted off the land from the New Deal • Marcus Garvey – in the 1920s he tried to get African

Americans to move back to Africa, to Liberia. However, it failed. He wanted unity of African Americans and fought for better education, less poverty and more independence. He thought the communists would only help white people. He wanted black people to rule themselves. He was a predecessor to the black power movement.

Key points –


Pair Work

• WWII• There was segregation in the army • Double V campaign – this was a campaign where African

Americans wanted ‘victory abroad and victory at home’ – trying to argue that they wanted more rights at home as well

• They experienced less racist societies abroad • It felt hypocritical to fight the Nazis with their racist policies yet

they were experiencing racism at home • A. Philip Randolph 1941 – suggested a march on Washington by

thousands of black people to challenge the employment policies of the federal government – only 10% of defence contractors would employ black people. President Roosevelt agreed to make concessions and the march was abandoned. Black people were employed in aircraft factories for the first time.

• In the North people were still racist but there was less segregation and white and black Americans were much more likely to interact

• Detroit Race Riots 1943 – huge increase in population due to booming defence industries , racial tensions, riots broke out after a white sailor’s girlfriend was insulted by a black man

• CORE founded – congress of racial equality – 1942. Non violence

Pair Work

Key points –


• 1950s and 1960s• Not in the post-war boom • Montgomery Bus Boycott• Brown vs. Topeka• Little Rock • Sit ins • Freedom Rides • James Meredith • Birmingham (bombing of church)• Washington • Selma – Bloody Sunday• Freedom Summer• Riots • SCLC, SNCC • King, Rosa Parks• Kennedy and Johnson• 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting

Rights Act, 1967 Supreme Court Ruling on Marriages, 1968 Civil Rights Act

Miss Dennis

Key points –


• Radicalisation of the Civil Rights movement

• Stokely Carmichael becomes leader of the SNCC

• Black power • Malcolm X • Riots 1965-1967 • LA Riots 1965 • Black Panthers

Miss Dennis

Key points –


• Nixon • Bussing – Berkley and

then dropped into Nixon

• Increased in political participation and remained economically weak

Miss Dennis

Key points –


• C – What were the top three turning points in the development of Civil Rights in America? Explain your answer.

• B – How have Civil Rights developed in America? Where are the main turnings points and key figures?

• A/A* - How far did Civil Rights develop in America by 1918,1945 and 1980?


B aim – to explain how Civil Rights have developed in America through turning points and key figures A/A* aim – to assess how far Civil Rights really developed in America

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