25-question factual test This test (complete with teacher answer sheet) can be used to confirm that students have taken detailed and effective notes on the topic. Part of the scheme of work: In what ways, for what reasons, and with what results, did the Civil Rights movement become more radical after 1964? (5 views)
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Multimedia lecture [1]: Changes in Objectives: From Integration (Civil Rights) to Black Nationalism (Human Rights)
Multimedia lecture [1]: Changes in Objectives: From Integration (Civil Rights) to Black Nationalism (Human Rights) In this first lecture, students learn about how even MLK started to become concerned that black people were trying to ‘integrate into a burning house’. The contribution of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, the Black Panthers, Black Power and Richard Pryor…
Causes of the Spanish Civil War: Essay Planning Generator
This new essay-planning generator helps students consider how five key factors which caused the Spanish Civil War can be linked in various ways. The computer shuffles the various factors as a pack. It then deals out the first two and connects them using a database of possible links. It then takes the third factor and…
Model Essay: Analyse the causes of the Spanish Civil War
Model Essay: Analyse the causes of the Spanish Civil War A sample essay by RJ Tarr of www.activehistory.co.uk. 40+ Model History Essays by RJ Tarr of www.activehistory.co.uk As well as writing a number of articles for History Review magazine, I make it a habit to write essays in timed conditions whenever I set such assignments…
Historiography: Causes for the Rise of Dictators / Outbreak of Civil Wars / Revolutions
Historiography: Causes for the Rise of Dictators / Outbreak of Civil Wars / Revolutions A useful summary grid outlining the main historians and their theories. (159 views)
Model Essay: For what reasons, and with what results, did the Civil Rights movement become more radical after 1964?
Model Essay: For what reasons, and with what results, did the Civil Rights movement become more radical after 1964? A sample essay written by me which I share with students for discussion purposes after they have completed their own assignment. (148 views)
Multimedia lecture [2]: IN WHAT WAYS did the Civil Rights movement become more radical after 1964?
Multimedia lecture [2]: IN WHAT WAYS did the Civil Rights movement become more radical after 1964? This detailed online presentation lecture is designed to be delivered by the teacher. It comes complete with media clips from a wide variety of sources. Questions for discussion are provided within the slides and students should be encouraged to…
Defining weasel terms: Guerrilla, interstate, civil wars; populist v. military dictators; and much more besides
Defining weasel terms: Guerrilla, interstate, civil wars; populist v. military dictators; and much more besides “If you are called upon to use case studies of such things as guerrilla warfare, civil wars, interstate wars, crises and conflicts, it is vitally important that you justify your chosen example(s) in the introduction of your essay. If you…
Comprehensive Summary Sheet for Revision: The Civil Rights Movement to 1965
Comprehensive Summary Sheet for Revision: The Civil Rights Movement to 1965 A thorough and essential revision aid over several pages. Suggested tasks: People: Decide upon the most important individuals in the civil rights movement (highlighted in yellow). Divide these between the class to research further, then conduct a classroom balloon debate to determine the overall…
How important was the role of women in the Civil Rights movement? – source work
A new source work assignment, complete with model answers, for the following questions. 1a. According to Source A, why was the success of the Little Rock Campaign still not assured? [3 marks] 1b. What is the message conveyed by Source B? [2 marks] 2. With reference to its origin, purpose and content, analyse the value…
To what extent was Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War due to the involvement of foreign powers?
To what extent was Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War due to the involvement of foreign powers? A model essay by RJ Tarr. (50 views)
Civil Rights Campaign 1964, Freedom Summer
Campaign 1964: Freedom Summer | Teacher notes “The 1964 Freedom Summer was a 10-week campaign in Mississippi designed to increase the amount of black people registered to vote…Listen to (or read) Fanie Lou Hamer’s “I Question America” speech and make notes on the sorts of injustices she and her people have suffered already and which she uses…
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Legislation 1964: The Civil Rights Act The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is significant because it made the protection of civil rights the responsibility of the federal government, and removed the rights of individual states to make their own exceptions to these…Watch the video clip and make detailed notes on the main provisions of the…
