USA - A Divided Union: Malcolm X

PowerPoint (with 8 slides) and two Word Documents that examines the impact of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam on the Civil Rights Movement.

Activities include

• Quick Quiz starter activity on the Selma Marches (feel free to change depending on your lesson sequence)
• Reading and gapfill on the origins of the Nation of Islam.
• Source analysis (including brief video) on the appeal of Malcolm X’s message.
• Source analysis activity to establish why Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were critical of each other.
• Discussion based activity on the significance of Cassius Clay joining the Nation.
• Discussion based activity on why Malcolm X’s departure from the Nation of Islam limited his contribution to the civil rights movement.
• Ranking activity on Malcolm X’s achievements.
• Source analysis to consider whether Malcolm X’s approach may have provoked more change than he is usually given credit for.

Designed for the teaching of Edexcel iGCSE History 4HI1 Paper 1 Depth Study 7 A Divided Union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.

Lesson Length: 1hr depending on pace.

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