AQA - AS GCE Historical Issues: Periods of Change Unit 2 HIS2P

AQA: Unit 2: Civil Rights in the USA, 1950-1968

Teaching Activities


Teaching Activities

  1. Study Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream …’ speech.
    Write out a list of the Biblical references, e.g. to Moses, the Promised Land.
    Why do you think the speech contained all these religious references?
  2. Draw a table to compare the beliefs and activities of the following.

 

Beliefs

Activities

Ku Klux Klan

 

 

NAACP

 

 

Martin Luther King

 

 

Malcolm X

 

 

Black Panthers

 

 

White segregationists in Alabama

 

 
  1. Compare the situation for African-Americans in the southern states of the USA in 1950 with their position in 1968.
    You can include the following and then add your own ideas:
    - education
    - housing
    - voting
    - standards of living
    - discrimination in public places and work.
  2. By 1968 African-Americans had seen improvements in their lives. However, they were still far from being equal in society. Explain reasons why you think this was the case in 1968.
  3. The US Presidents in the period 1950–1968 supported the Civil Rights movement, though sometimes with reluctance. Explain the motives of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.