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1 and 2 - Position in 1945 and Federal V State Laws
1 and 2 - Position in 1945 and Federal V State Laws
1 and 2 - Position in 1945 and Federal V State Laws
Noticing details
Civil Rights
Making
links
Starter: What
image do you get
of the Civil Rights
Movement from
this picture?
Think: What does the video clip tell you about the Civil
Rights movement in American after 1945?
Imagining
Learning Objectives
Key Questions for this unit are:
I’ m just a Negro
soldier
Fighting for
"democracy!'
Perseverance/
Managing
Main Task distractions
• Design a leaflet to be sent to the government setting
out the grievances of the black people in the southern
states of the USA. Refer to the contribution of black
Americans to the US war effort in the Second World
War.
20 minutes
Towards the end of the war a journalist asked a young girl how
Hitler should be punished...
“Paint him
black and
send him
to
America!”
Thinking
Lesson 2:
Jim Crow Laws 1876-1965
Starter:
In 1896 an American court
allowed segregation,
separation of students along
racial lines, if it was ‘separate
but equal.’ What do you think
separate but equal means?
States that
enforced Jim
Crow laws (in
orange)
Extension:
What effects will the lack of a proper education and
not being able to vote have on Black people? Think about
housing, standard of living etc
Plenary
Listening to
others