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Free at LastCivil Rights in the USA

1918-1968

Workbook 3 –The Civil Rights

MovementLesson 9 – The demand for Civil Rights after 1945

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Starter

Task 1 – What 3 things did black Americans hope to achieve during World War 2?

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Task 2 – Why was A. Philip Randolph important to the Civil Rights movement?

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Task 3 – To what extent did the Second World War improve the level of equality for black Americans?

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I can explain why the Second World War was important in changing attitudes towards Civil Rights.

I can describe the Brown v Topeka court case and explain why it was significant.

I can describe the murder of Emmett Till and explain why it was significant.

Problems Facing Black Americans in 1939

Conclusion

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Task 5 – Why was the court decision so important?

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Task 6 – Annotate the lyrics below. Your notes should provide details of the case and its impact on America. You should also note down background information about race relations that are mentioned in the song.

Was down in Mississippi not so long agoWhen a young boy from Chicago town

Walked in a Southern door

This boy's fateful tragedyYou all should remember well

The colour of his skin was blackAnd his name was Emmett Till

Some men, they dragged him to a barnAnd there they beat him upThey said they had a reason

But I just can't remember what

They tortured him and did some thingsToo evil to repeat

There were screaming sounds inside the barnThere was laughing sounds out on the street

Then they rolled his body down a gulfAmidst a blood red rain

And they threw him in the waters wideTo cease his screaming pain

The reason that they killed him thereAnd I'm a-sure, it ain't no lie

'Cause he was born in black-skin barnHe was born to die

And then to stop the United StatesOf yelling for a trial

Two brothers, they confessedThat they had killed poor Emmett Till

But on the jury there were menWho had helped the brothers commit this awful crime

And so this trial was a mockeryBut nobody there seemed to mind

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I saw the morning papersBut I could not bear

To see smiling brothersWalkin' down the courthouse stairs

For the jury found them innocentAnd the brothers, they went free

While Emmett's body floats the foamOf a Jim Crow southern sea

If you can't speak out against this kind of thingA crime that's so unjust

Your eyes are filled with dead men's clayYour ears must be filled with dust

Your arms and legsThey must be in shackles and chainsAnd your mind, it must cease to flow

For you to let our human raceFall down so God-awful low

Task 7 – How far do Source A and B agree about the impact of the Emmett Till case?Source A – Muhammed Ali, boxer.

Source B - Congressman Charles Diggs

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Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered . . . I stood on the corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets and his mouth twisted and broken. His mother refused to let him be buried until hundreds of thousands marched past his open casket in Chicago and looked down at his mutilated body. [I] felt a deep kinship to him when I learned he was born the same year and day I was. My father talked about it at night and dramatised the crime. I couldn’t get Emmett out of my mind.

I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till’s mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.

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Task 8 – Explain why the demand for Civil Rights began to grow after 1945.

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Lesson 10 – The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King

Task 1 – Describe the events which led to the arrest of Rosa Parks.

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Task 2 – Take notes on what happened during the boycott.

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I can describe the events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

I can explain the impact and significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

I can describe the beliefs of Martin Luther King

Task 3 – To what extent can the bus boycott be considered a success?

Success Failure

Conclusion

Task 4 - Describe the beliefs of Martin Luther King. You should include detail of what inspired him and how he believed that you should protest.

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Lesson 11 – Little Rock

Starter – What had the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling decided?

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Task 1 – Take a note of the key events which took place at Little Rock.

Task 2 – Explain why Little Rock was so important to the Civil Rights movement.

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Task 3 – What evidence is there that Little Rock did not change the lives of many black students?

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Task 4 – Evaluate the usefulness of Source A as evidence of the events at Little Rock High School.

Source A was taken on 4th September, 1957 outside Little Rock High School.

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Lesson 12 – Sit-ins and Freedom Rides

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I can describe the Sit-ins and explain their significance

I can describe the Freedom Rides and explain their significance.

Task 1 – Complete the notes about the Sit-ins

Task 2 – Compare the views in Source B and C on the success of the Sit-ins.

Source B

Some Civil Rights workers believed that the sit-ins showed students that they could take action themselves. Young black people realised that they could make a difference to Civil Rights by winning the support of both black and white Americans. However, sit-ins only achieved limited success in some of the towns and cities where the protests were used. Much more needed to be done to improve Civil Rights.

Source C

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Aims;

Methods;

Achievements;

Intimidation;

The very act of protesting meant the students believed they could make a difference. When they “sat in” these young people practiced non-violence, they dressed in their best clothes and they studied books. This helped to encourage black community support and won the respect and even admiration of some white Americans. However, the sit-ins only enjoyed success in a few Southern states. In the Deep South, white Americans refused to desegregate and the protestors faced resistance from the white authorities.

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Task 3 – Take notes on the video about the Greensboro sit-ins.

Task 4 – Draw a storyboard of the events which took place during the Freedom Rides of 1961.

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Task 5 – What impact did the Freedom Rides have?

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Task 6 – Which of the protests do you think had the greatest impact on the Civil Rights Movement; the Birmingham Bus Boycott, the Greensboro Sit-Ins or the Freedom Rides?

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Lesson 13 – The March on Birmingham (Project C)

Task 1 – Explain why Martin Luther King chose Birmingham as the site of a protest.

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Task 2 – What were Martin Luther King’s aims in Birmingham?

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Task 3 – You are in charge of the school announcements at a high school in Birmingham in 1963. Use the image below to create an announcement appealing for students to go on a march.

Task 4 – Evaluate the usefulness of the picture on p15 in describing the March on Birmingham, 1963.

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I can describe the events that shocked the world in Birmingham in 1963.

I can explain why the events in Birmingham were useful to the Civil Rights movement.

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Recall

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Task 5 – How far can it be argued that the March on Birmingham in 1963 was a success?

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Lesson 14 – March on Washington14

Task 1 – Complete the notes about the March on Washington

Task 2 – Which line from ‘I have a dream’ do you think is the most powerful? Explain why.

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Task 3 – To what extent did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 solve the problem of inequality in America?

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Methods;

Achievements;

Solved Failed to Solve

Conclusion;

Task 4 – Make a list of all the achievements that the Civil Rights movement had made by 1964.

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Task 5 – Which achievement do you think was most significant? Explain why.

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Knowledge Organiser Tests

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Knowledge Checklist

Explain why the demand for Civil Rights grew after 1945

Describe the events at Little Rock

Describe the events of the Birmingham Bus Boycott

Describe the events of the Sit-Ins

Describe the March on Birmingham

Describe the March on Washington

Explain why it can be argued that progress had been made by the Civil Rights Movement in the years leading up to 1965.

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