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Edexcel A Level History, Paper 3: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850-2009 Student Book
(2016)
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Abstract
This book:
- covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
- helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
- provides assessment support for A level with sample answers, sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the new-style exam questions.
It also comes with three years' access to an ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect for revision.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| How to use this book | 4 | ||
| Introduction: A Level History | 6 | ||
| Introduction: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850-2009 | 8 | ||
| Aspects in breadth: Changing perceptions of race relations, 1850-2009 | 10 | ||
| 3.1: The changing geography of civil rights issues | 10 | ||
| Introduction | 10 | ||
| How far did the geographical distribution of black Americans change in the years 1850-2009? | 12 | ||
| The position in 1850 | 12 | ||
| Freedom in 1865 | 13 | ||
| The slow drift north and west | 15 | ||
| The Great Migration, 1915-45 | 18 | ||
| The impact of the Second World War: migration north and west, 1941-45 | 23 | ||
| Migration after the Second World War: the move back to the Old South | 24 | ||
| To what extent did the changing pattern of settlement and segregation impact on civil rights issues in the years 1850-2009? | 24 | ||
| The mass migration into Harlem from 1905 | 25 | ||
| The riots in Chicago, 1919 | 26 | ||
| Tulsa race riot, 1921 | 27 | ||
| The Watts riot in Los Angeles, August 1965 | 29 | ||
| The Newark riot, 1967 | 32 | ||
| The development of de facto segregation against black Americans in Levitt estates | 34 | ||
| Increasing desegregation of the Old South post-1970 | 35 | ||
| 3.2: Changing portrayal of civil rights issues in fiction and film | 38 | ||
| Introduction | 38 | ||
| To what extent did literature shape and reflect changing perceptions of race relations, 1850-2009? | 39 | ||
| To what extent did Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe impact on race relations? | 39 | ||
| How important was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain in shaping and refl ecting changing perceptions of race relations? | 42 | ||
| How accurate was the portrayal of race relations in Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell? | 46 | ||
| In what ways did To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee reflect the changing nature of race relations? | 49 | ||
| How far did Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison shape and reflect race relations? | 51 | ||
| Did The Help (2009) by Kathryn Stockett do more to reflect than shape race relations? | 53 | ||
| How far did film and television influence and reflect changing perceptions of race, 1850-2009? | 56 | ||
| Portrayal of black Americans in lithographs and photographs | 56 | ||
| Portrayal of black Americans in paintings | 59 | ||
| The portrayal of race relations in The Birth of a Nation, 1915 | 59 | ||
| How far did In the Heat of the Night (1967) reflect changing perceptions of the relationships between black and white Americans? | 62 | ||
| How far was Mississippi Burning (1988) an accurate portrayal of race relations in Mississippi in 1964? | 63 | ||
| Was the film Malcolm X (1992) an accurate reflection of race relations? | 64 | ||
| The impact of the television miniseries Roots (1977) | 65 | ||
| How accurate a reflection was The Wire (2002-08) of the urban black American experience in the early 21st century? | 66 | ||
| Aspects in depth: Emancipation and moves towards greater equality | 68 | ||
| 3.3: ‘Free at last’, 1865-77 | 68 | ||
| Introduction | 68 | ||
| To what extent did the thirteenth amendment change the position of ex-slaves? | 69 | ||
| Reasons for the Thirteenth Amendment | 69 | ||
| The importance of the Thirteenth Amendment | 70 | ||
| The economic position of ex-slaves and the development of sharecropping | 74 | ||
| Social tensions | 75 | ||
| The need for a political settlement | 75 | ||
| President Johnson’s response to Reconstruction | 76 | ||
| How far did radical reconstruction change the position of black Americans in the former confederacy? | 78 | ||
| Radical Reconstruction and the impact of military rule in the south | 78 | ||
| The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution | 80 | ||
| The Civil Rights Act 1875 | 81 | ||
| The significance of the presence of black American representatives in federal and state legislatures | 82 | ||
| What significance did the white backlash in the former confederacy have on the rights of black Americans? | 83 | ||
| The Ku Klux Klan and the White League | 83 | ||
| The restoration of Democrat control in the South | 86 | ||
| The end of Reconstruction, 1877 | 87 | ||
| 3.4: The triumph of ‘Jim Crow’, 1883-c1900 | 90 | ||
| Introduction | 90 | ||
| rHow significant for black Americans were the civil rights cases of 1883 in the us supreme court?\r | 91 | ||
| The role of the US Supreme Court in American government | 91 | ||
| The civil rights cases of 1883 | 91 | ||
| To what extent did the spread of Jim Crow laws change race relations in the south and how were black people excluded from voting? | 93 | ||
| The spread of Jim Crow Laws | 93 | ||
| Excluding black voters | 97 | ||
| To what extent did the supreme court cases of 1896-99 alter the lives of black Americans? | 101 | ||
| Plessy v Ferguson, 1896 | 101 | ||
| The importance of Williams v Mississippi, 1898 | 102 | ||
| Cumming v Richmond County Board of Education, 1899 | 102 | ||
| The use of violence | 103 | ||
| 3.5: The New Deal and race relations, 1933-41 | 108 | ||
| Introduction | 108 | ||
| How important were southern democrats at hindering black civil rights? | 109 | ||
| Party organisation in the USA | 109 | ||
| Party organisation in the US Congress | 110 | ||
| The impact of southern Democrats during the New Deal, 1933-41 | 111 | ||
| To what extent did president Franklin D. Roosevelt fail to improve race relations? | 113 | ||
| Continuation of Jim Crow Laws | 113 | ||
| Exclusion of black voters | 114 | ||
| The defeat of federal attempts at anti-lynching legislation | 115 | ||
| How far did the new deal benefit black Americans? | 118 | ||
| The effect of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) on black farmers | 119 | ||
| Segregation in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | 119 | ||
| Differential wages in the National Recovery Administration (NRA) | 122 | ||
| Racial discrimination in other New Deal legislation | 122 | ||
| How the New Deal aided black Americans, including welfare benefits and relief | 122 | ||
| The work of Eleanor Roosevelt | 124 | ||
| Impact of the New Deal on the voting patterns of black Americans | 127 | ||
| 3.6: ‘I have a dream’, 1954-68 | 130 | ||
| Introduction | 130 | ||
| To what extent did black American civil rights improve between 1954 and 1963? | 131 | ||
| The role of Earl Warren and the US Supreme Court | 131 | ||
| The impact of the Montgomery bus boycott victory | 133 | ||
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the work and impact of Martin Luther King | 134 | ||
| Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) | 137 | ||
| The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | 138 | ||
| How significant were the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1968 and the voting rights act of 1965 in bringing change to black American civil rights? | 139 | ||
| The Civil Rights Act, 1964 | 139 | ||
| The Voting Rights Act, 1965 | 140 | ||
| The Civil Rights Act, 1968 | 142 | ||
| How far did internal divisions within the black American community affect the quest for greater civil rights? | 143 | ||
| Increasing divisions: the expulsion of white Americans from the SNCC and CORE | 143 | ||
| The role of Malcolm X | 144 | ||
| The growth of the Black Panther Party | 146 | ||
| Martin Luther King: the last years, 1966-68 | 148 | ||
| 3.7: Obama’s campaign for the presidency, 2004-09 | 152 | ||
| Introduction | 152 | ||
| How important was Obama’s political career from 2004 to 2006 in his rise to the presidency? | 153 | ||
| Obama’s career to 2006 | 153 | ||
| Why was Obama successful in gaining the democrat party nomination for the presidency in 2008? | 159 | ||
| Personal and speaking skills | 160 | ||
| Democrat Party opponents | 160 | ||
| Obama’s election strategies | 163 | ||
| Policies | 164 | ||
| How far was Obama’s success in winning the presidential election of 2008 due to the weakness of his opponents? | 165 | ||
| The context | 165 | ||
| The economic situation | 166 | ||
| The choice of vice-presidential candidates | 166 | ||
| The presidential election result of 4 November 2008 | 168 | ||
| The significance of Obama’s victory and the response to it by black Americans | 170 | ||
| Preparing for your A Level Paper 3 exam | 175 | ||
| Index | 188 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 191 |