Topic 2 :CHANGING ATTITUDES TO THE RACE ISSUE, 1929-2000

RESOURCES and Revision

Key Questions and Topics:-

Look at this excellent Powerpoint on Racism in the USA from the NGFL Cymru Website

1. Why was there so much racial inequality in the USA between 1929 and 1945?

• The position of black people in the 1930s (segregation and the Jim Crow Laws, the Ku Klux Klan; reaction: the NAACP, the impact of the depression and the New Deal)

• Black people and World War II (the Jim Crow Army, black workers at home, the impact of the war on the civil rights issue)

• The struggle for equal education (the importance of: Brown v Topeka 1954, Little Rock High 1957, James Meredith, 1962)

• The struggle for equality in transport (the Montgomery Bus boycott; the freedom riders)

• Key figures in the campaign for equal rights (The role and significance of Martin Luther King; the role and significance of Malcolm X and the Black Power movement)

• The extent of change (Civil Rights legislation, developments in education and housing for black people, race riots; the extent of change and progress)

• Developments in black culture (the development of black identity and culture; the extent of black success in politics, sport, media and entertainment

Short videos and powerpoints on immigration and racial issues in America.

Civil Rights Story powerpoint

1. Jim Crow Laws

2. Ku Klux Klan

3. The Harlem Renaissance

4. The Jim Crow Army [1]

5. The Jim Crow Army [2]

6. James Meredith [1]

7. James meredith [2]

8. Brown Vs Board of  Education [1]

9. Brown Vs Board of  Education [2]

10. Rosa Parks

11. Sit-ins

12. Emmett Till

13. Martin Luther King[1]

14. Martin Luther King[2]

15. 1960's Civil Rights

16. JFK  1963

17. Selma Alabama 1965

18. Medgar Evers

19. Death of MLK

20. Malcolm X

21. Rodney King beaten

22. Los Angeles Riots