How Did People Campaign for Civil Rights in the 50's and 60's?

This lesson contains:

• A starter which introduces the idea of civil rights and what it means.
• An overview of the Jim Crows laws that were still in place,  leading to segregation still operating in the southern states. A further overview of the problems that existed in the 1950’s and 1960’s in the U.S. for black people, including the KKK and racist attacks.
• A YouTube video which gives a nice overview of segregation and what forms it took, and how black people began to fight back against it, including Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and some of the movements.
• An activity to use the information provided to complete a worksheet to show the major efforts, like the bus boycott, freedom riders, sit in’s etc. for each, students briefly judge the impact they had.
• A plenary task to study on-board info and judge whether there were improvements. They use the info to pick a side and argue for it.

Attachments:

• 1 x Powerpoint Presentation
• 2 x Publisher Files