USA - A Divided Union: The Black Panthers

PowerPoint (with 5 slides) and one word document that examines the aims of the Black Panthers, and their successes and failures as part of the wider Civil Rights Movement. It also considers whether the FBI’s view of the organisation as dangerous was accurate.

Activities include

• Starter activity on what a photo can tell us about the Black Panthers.
• Source analysis exercise on the aims of the Black Panthers.
• Reading, comprehension and highlighting activity on the successes and failures of the Black Panthers.
• Interpretation activity testing the FBI’s view of the Black Panthers.
• Plenary discussion / ranking activity on the most important reason for the failure of the Black Panthers as an organisation.

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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