Civil Rights in the USA: 1945–1968

Civil Rights in the USA: 1945–1968, explores the campaigns of African American Civil Rights activists for desegregation and economic and political rights. This new textbook assesses the significance of key campaigns, the beliefs, aims and methods of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and evaluates the achievements of the Civil Rights movement and its influence beyond the United States.

Students engage with secondary literature before and as they investigate and interpret the sources.

Students enact the historical skills of analysis and use sources, interpretation, investigation and research, and explain and communicate their historical findings.

Students use the historical concepts of continuity and change, perspectives, significance, causation, and contestability to interpret the past.

Features

• Highly experienced author
• Alignment with the NSW Modern History Syllabus
• Extracts from key historical sources, including treaties, legislation, speeches, ideological tracts, photographs and propaganda
• Extracts from classic and contemporary historical interpretations
• Activities tailored to the historical skills and concepts, including the Analysis and use of sources, historical interpretation, historical investigation and research, and explanation and communication
• Content consolidation activities scaffold students on the journey from remembering to evaluation and creation
• diagrams, maps, whole book glossary, up-to-date research

Contents

• Chapter 1 The position of African Americans in 1945
• Chapter 2 The formation of Civil Rights and opposition groups
• Chapter 3 Campaigns for desegregation
• Chapter 4 Campaigns for economic and political rights
• Chapter 5 The beliefs, aims and methods: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
• Chapter 6 Achievements of the Civil Rights Movement

About the Author

Samantha Frappell is a senior History teacher based in Sydney. She is the author of several school texts for primary and secondary students and has a PhD in History from the University of Sydney.