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8 April 2025

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pptx, 4.87 MB
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PNG, 349.63 KB

American Civil Rights

The aim of this lesson is to evaluate the contribution women have played to the Civil Rights Movement.

The title of the lesson is unsung heroes, which is apt as many women have previously been invisible or deliberately placed in the background, despite being key figures in the fight for civil rights for their roles as organisers, strategists and activists.

The lesson begins by considering why this has been the case with a heads and tails activity pointing to media and gender bias, historical narratives and internal patriarchy.

The main task of the lesson is to analyse eight key women and assess their impact and contribution to civil right: from Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Jo Ann Robinson, Septima Clark, Georgia Gilmore, Angela Davis and Ruby Bridges. A further in depth analysis of Ella Baker at the Democratic National Convention of 1964 is also explored.

Students also have the opportunity for some differentiated extended writing to justify which of these hidden figures in the Civil Rights Movement in their opinion has made the most telling contribution.

The plenary is to answer a series of questions to discover a key word related to the learning from the lesson for women and civil rights.

The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited to show the progress of learning.

The resource includes suggested teaching strategies, differentiated materials and comes in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to edit and change.

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Civil Rights in America Bundle

I have created a set of resources for ‘the challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day’ which focus on Civil Rights in America. The aims of this bundle are to understand how black people were treated in the USA in the Twentieth Century and how they began to fight for their civil rights. I have created, readapted and used these lessons to challenge and engage students, but also to show how much fun learning about this part of history really is. Students will learn and understand key historical skills throughout such as the continuity and change in the rights of black people in the USA, the causes consequences of the Civil Rights movement which followed, the similarities and differences of the tactics used, the significance of key figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Jesse Owens, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and various interpretations about why female activists have been invisible and how far black people have achieved equality today. Each lesson comes with retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations and debate from the BBC and other sources. The lessons are fully adaptable and can be changed to suit. The lessons are as follows: L1 Abraham Lincoln L2 Jim Crow Laws L3 Little Rock Nine L4 Emmett Till L5 Rosa Parks L6 Protesting L7 Martin Luther King (Free lesson) L8 Malcolm X L9 Ku Klux Klan L10 Jesse Owens L11 Civil Rights in America today L12 Women in the Civil Rights Movement L13 Black people in the American Civil War (bonus lesson)

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