Summary: Written by senior examiners and experienced teachers of the course, this student revision workbook for Edexcel AS History Unit 1: Pursuing Life and Liberty: Equality in the USA, 1945-68 closely combines course content with revision activities and advice on exam technique. This allows students the opportunity to improve the skills needed to perform well in exam conditions through interacting with the content they need to revise.In addition each section has a model answer with exam tips for students to analyse and better understand what is required in the exam.
Board specific revision guide which is tightly focussed on both the what you need to know and the how you need to apply it to do well in the examination.Written by examiners and teachers who know the common pitfalls and what the most effective focus for revision should be.Combines content knowledge with skills practice - allowing skills as well as content revision away from the classroom.
Table of Contents: IntroductionSection 1: Signs of change, 1945-1955President Truman and Civil RightsThe NAACP and educationThe extent of change by 1955Exam focusSection 2: The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Little Rock campaignSit-ins and freedom ridesFrom Albany to BirminghamMarch on Washington and the Civil Rights Act (1964)Voting rights: 1957-1965Martin Luther King's northern campaignsOpposition to civil rightsKey players: King, Kennedy and JohnsonAchievements of peaceful protestExam focusSection 3: Black Nationalism and Black PowerMalcolm XBlack PanthersExam focusSection 4: Protest culture and the 1960sMass cultureFeminismExam focusGlossaryTimelineAnswers
About the Author(s): Robin Bunce is a Director of Studies for Politics at Homerton College in Cambridge and an examiner in history.Laura Gallagher teaches history at Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge and is an examiner in history.
Readership: AS history students studying this unit
