Topics
The ‘Open Door’ policy and immigration, to 1928,
- The USA at the end of the First World War
- The social, political and economic status of different ethnic groups in the USA.
- The attraction of the USA
- Experience of immigrants – arrival, living and working conditions, political participation.
- Changing attitudes towards immigrants during the 1920s
- The ‘Jim Crow’ laws
- Lynching
- The attitudes and activities of the Ku Klux Klan
- The migration of black Americans to the North
- Growing demand for civil rights after 1945
- Reasons for this growth
- Peaceful protest
- Role of Martin Luther King
- Response of state and federal authorities to these campaigns
- Assessment of the impact of the campaigns on US society
- The problems faced by blacks in the Northern ghettos
- The ghetto riots of the 1960s
- Violent activities of civil rights and black radical protest movements during the 1950s and 1960s — the roles of Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X
- Response of state and federal authorities to these campaigns
- Assessment of the impact of the campaigns on US society
Civil Rights Clips
Links
Conditions for Black Americans - From Jim Crow to Black Power: this site explores the history of race relations in the USA, 1918 – 1968. Examine, interpret and evaluate a wide variety of sources on key areas such as Freedom Summer and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Eyes on the Prize - a website that covers the Civil Rights movement
BBC Bitesize Civil Rights
A website on Jim Crow Laws and segregation