Free at Last?, Race Relations in the USA (Heftet (myke permer))

This text has been written to accompany the popular option in the Intermediate History course. As the text is written for the Intermediate course, the approach is a source-based one, with progressive text and activities clearly differentiated in difficulty. Each chapter opens with a list of the main points to be covered, and contains numerous "What Do You Think?" sections, together with a range of primary and secondary source material. The end-of-chapter questions are pitched at both Intermediate 1 level (covering recall, evaluation and deriving data from source) as well as Intermediate 2 extended-response questions. The text also provides a breakdown of how the exam is structured as well as ideas on how to tackle extended-response type questions.

The American dream; the immigrant experience; immigration in the 1920s; black Americans - the "in-migrants"; the end of slavery - free at last?; fear, terror and lynchings; the Klu Klux Klan; early civil rights campaigns; pressure for change - the great migration; pressure for change - World War II and Executive Order 8802; separate but unequal; the Montgomery bus boycott, 1955; Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement; sit-ins; the freedom rides; Birmingham, Alabama 1963; President Kennedy and the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Selma, Alabama and the right to vote; Malcolm X and the nation of Islam; Stokely Carmichael and black power; the Black Panthers; the Civil Rights Campaign moves north; the assassination of Martin Luther King; conclusion.