KS5 Long Term Overview: Year 12 for 2007-8 for Paul Mundy Castle to use
Subject: History – US Civil Rights 1945-68, Edexcel Unit 2 (30%) (Exam)
Autumn Term 2007
Half Term 1 – 8 lessons
Overview of the situation prior to
WW2 regarding the position of
African Americans since
emancipation
• Geographical differences in
the treatment of African
Americans. North and South-
de facto discrimination in
North de jure discrimination
in South.
• Reconstruction,Jim Crow,
KKK ,Lynching.
• Plessey v Ferguson.
Separate but equal?
• The Great Migration and
effects of WW1.
• Key individuals- Booker T
Washington ,WEB Du Bois.
Accommodation v
confrontation.Efforts at
raising black consciousness
• The Depression, New Deal
and WW2
Half Term 2 – 12 lessons
Did post war abundance improve
life for African Americans?
• Position of the USA at the end
of WW2
• “To Secure these rights”- Did
President Truman do much to
Year 12
Spring Term 2008
Half Term 1 – 12 lessons
Martin Luther King and Peaceful
Protest
• MLK philosophy and
background
• Non violence in practice Sit
ins, Freedom Rides and the
March on Washington
• Birmingham
Chronology of the early Civil
Rights.Protest ,Legislation and
Debate
• Kennedy or Johnson – who
did more?
• Was Selma MLK’s “finest
hour”
• The Civil Rights Act and
Voting Rights Act
• Opposition – State Rights
Congress and the White
backlash
• Ghetto riots and economic
inequality
Half Term 2 – 12 lessons
Non violence challenged – Black
Power
• NOI philosophy and aims
• Malcolm X
• The rise of Black Power in the
Ghettoes
Summer Term 2008
Half Term 1 – 12 lessons
How much was achieved across the
period? Had African Americans
succeeded in their pursuit of “Life
and Liberty” by 1969?
• The death of MLK
• What factors inhibited
progress- black divisions,
economic inequality, the
effects of the Vietnam War
• Nixons Silent Majority
• Facts and figures- do they
show the fight had been won?
• Affirmative action – did it
work?
• Integration or separation
• Was the Kerner Report
accurate?
Review, revision and examination
techniques.
 help Black Americans?
• Supreme Court
decisions.BROWN.
• The NAACP- Little Rock and
Montgomery. The emergence
of MLK.
• Opposition to progress- the
roots and attitudes of racism
in the USA
• The radicalisation of the
movement- ghetto rejection of
MLK. Watts and Harlem
• The Black Panthers
• Did Black Power militancy
actually lead to a decline in
the ability of African
Americans to influence their
own future?