OCR GCSE Modern World: America Land of the Free - Black Civil Rights 1945 - 1975

These bundled resources cover the content and past paper questions for the current (old) OCR Specification which is being examined this year for the last time.

Aspects of the syllabus covered by these resources are as follows:

1. How successful was the struggle for civil rights in the 1950s?

• What was the state of civil rights in America in c.1950?
• Did the Second World War have an impact on the position of African Americans?
• Why was the struggle over desegregated education in the 1950s important?
• What was the importance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

2. Who improved civil rights the most in the 1960s and 1970s?

• How were Martin Luther King’s ideas and methods different from those of Malcolm X?
• Who did more for civil rights in America, Martin Luther King or Malcolm X?
• Who was more important in improving civil rights, President Kennedy or President Johnson?
• Did the Black Power groups harm the struggle for civil rights?
• How far did civil rights progress under Nixon?

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