Week 6: African Americans in the North

This week we will continue to amble towards World War One by looking at the experience of African Americans in the northern states of the USA.

W.E.B Du Bois

Students should complete their notes on Convict Leasing and African Americans and Southern Industry. They should also continue with their revision notes on 'How the lives of African Americans changed between 1877 and 1917.

Week 5: Regression or Advance?

Hope you have all had a good summer and are ready to return bright eyed and bushy tailed for Year 13. We will be going on to look at the 1877-1918. The lessons of the two classes will be slightly out of sync so the 'week will refer to the class who are furthest ahead.

We will be coming on to analyse the regression and advances in terms of African American Civil Rights along with looking at responses of African Americans.

You need to have completed your assignments set at the end of last term and bring in all the notes and sheets along with your green pen responses to the feedback on your assignments.

Booker T Washington: To what extent did he 'accept' the position of African Americans?

Assignments

1. Notes on Convict Leasing (McPherson 630) and African Americans and Southern Industry (McPherson 680-81)

2. Revision Grid on 'How the lives of African Americans changed between 1877-1918'

Week 4 / Summer: 1877-1917 Overview Civil Rights: Progression or Regression?

After the Reconstruction period we will come on to look at how African American civil rights fared between 1877 - 1918. In the last lesson and over the Summer you will gain an overview of how the period.

Information on the Plessy v Ferguson Case (1896)

By the first lesson in September you need to have:

1.Responded to the marking of your assignment with your own comments in green pen. Answer any questions posed, raise any questions you have, refer to any points you feel are significant or you feel you have progressed with, refer to any areas you feel you need to develop etc.

      We will then be going on to look at the 1877-1917 period

2.    Read Patterson pp. 60-71

3.    Read and highlighted Plessy v Ferguson (Gilder Lehrman) sheets

4.    Read and highlighted Segregation and Disenfranchisement (GL) sheet

5.    Read and highlighted Lynching (GL) sheet

6.    Make detailed notes on Paterson 60-71 (esp. 69-71)

7. Read more widely on how African Americans fared between 1877-1917. What improved? What regressed? What was the role of the federal government? What other factors were important? Add any additional notes you see fit on the period

I will collect in the Patterson notes on the first lesson back in September.

Have a good break. Best wishes.

Weeks 3 and 4: Reconstruction: Significance and Failure and After Reconstruction

Over the next two weeks we will be looking at Reconstruction and its aftermath

1874 Cartoon - The Union As It Was

Documents for the course can be found on Resources - History - Year 13 -USA Civil Rights Coursework PR

Do register on the Gilder Lehrman website - You can access to loads of great material. A fantastic resource and organisation (thanks for Summer 2001!)

Useful video clips

Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877

Eric Foner on Changing Views of Reconstruction

Eric Foner on Reconstruction


Assignment for 3 July 2014

1. What was the significance of Reconstruction for African American rights?
2. Why did Reconstruction fail?

Week 2: Civil Rights and Reconstruction

This week we will start to analyse the nature of civil rights in the USA and the legacy of Reconstruction.

President Andrew Johnson. US President from 1865-69

And yes, President Johnson was as helpful to African American rights as his happy go lucky demeanour suggests he would be.

Week 1: Introduction

The joy of commencing a new A Level unit is upon us all.

For Unit 4 you are undertaking the following course - CW39: The USA: From Reconstruction to Civil Rights c. 1977-1981

A good clip to introduce you to the course 

Martin Luther King's Last Speech in Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 1968

Can you post answers to the following in the comments section

1. What do you want to get from the Civil Rights course?

2. Why are you taking A Level History?

3. What are you aspirations (educational / other)?

Can you add your initials at the end to show who has written the comments.

Thanks