A Divided Union: Civil Rights in the USA 1945-74

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• Understand historical reasons for the Jim Crow laws

• Understand ways in which African-Americans were discriminated against

• Understsand the reasons for the Brown v Board court case

• Understand the significance of the case on the civil rights movement

Understand the reasons for the death of Emmett Till and its impact on the civil rights movement

• Understand why there was a bus boycott in Montgomery

• Understand the impact of the bus boycott

• Understand the events leading to the 1957 Civil Rights Act

• Understand opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Act

• Understand the significance of the 1957 Civil Rights Act

• Understand why desegregation was an issue in the Southern states of the US

• Understand the events at Little Rock in 1957

• Understand the significance of events at Little Rock in 1957

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Students will gain an overview of civil rights in the 1960s

Understand the sit-ins and their significance

• Understand the key events in the Freedom Rides campaign

Understand the significance of the James Meredith case

Understand the impact of mass peace marches in Birmingham

• Understand the role of Martin Luther King Junior on the civil rights movement

• Understand the impact of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Understand the reasons for the failure of the Freedom Summer in Mississippi

Understand the events of Selma and their impact

• Understand the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Understand the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Understand the reasons for these pieces of legislation, including the impact of protests

An overview of the main events in the civil rights movement from 1966-74

• Understand the aims of the Nation of Islam

• Understand the impact of Malcolm X and his split with the Nation of Islam

• Understand reasons for the growth of the Black Power movement

• Understand the influence of Stokely Carmichael

• Understand the reasons for the formation of the Black Panther Party

• Understand the activities of the Black Panther Party

Understand the responses from different sections of American society to Black Power and the Black Panthers

Understand the impact of the race riots

Understand the actions of the mainstream civil rights movement from 1966-74

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• Understand reasons for the growth of other protest movements

• Understand the emergence of student protests

• Understand the impact of student protests

• Understand the reasons for the Vietnam War

• Understand why there was opposition to the Vietnam War

• Understand the impact of protests on the Vietnam War

• Gain an overview of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s

• Understand the role of Betty Friedan and Eleanor Roosevelt in the feminist movement

Understand the main women's movement organisations, their aims and impacts

• To understand the main social changes affecting the women's movement

• To understand the impact of Roe v Wade

• To understand why there was opposition to the women's movement

• To understand the role of Phyllis Schlafly in opposing the ERA

• To evaluate the impact the women's movement

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• To understand the background to the Watergate scandal

  
  

• To understand the keye events in the Watergate Scandal

• To understand the role of Woodward and Bernstein and the FBI in uncovering the Watergate Scandal

• To evaluate the impact of the Watergate Scandal

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