1. What was life like for black Americans by the middle of the twentieth-century?
A) WHAT WERE THE KEY FEATURES OF SEGREGATION?
African-Americans had been effectively 'dehumanised' in the USA since the very founding of the country. Think back to what you may have studied / explored previously that will give you an insight into how this had happened - discuss as a class.The aim of this lesson is to be able to identify what life was like for black Americans by the middle of the twentieth century.
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Reflection question:
HOW SIMILAR WAS THE EXPERIENCE OF BLACK AMERICANS LIVING IN THE JIM CROW STATES TO THAT OF THE JEWS LIVING IN NAZI GERMANY?
B) HOW DID THE JIM CROW 'SYSTEM' WORK?
In this lesson, we are going to try to understand how the Jim Crow system actually worked in order to see how black Americans were able to challenge it.
In this lesson, we are going to try to understand how the Jim Crow system actually worked in order to see how black Americans were able to challenge it.
Why didn't black Americans simply vote to change the laws?
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2. What was the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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CREATE A NEW PAGE: PEACEFUL PROTEST
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3. How did Protest begin to change at the beginning of the 1960s?
The early 1960s saw a shift in the civil rights movement to a younger, more idealistic generation of protesters. These were black students and workers who sought to build on the successes of the 1950s which, while significant, had been confined largely to education and the buses. The Supreme Court and Federal government had signaled that change was now possible - but it would have to be led by increasingly direct action by civil rights groups
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