AS Edexcel history. Pursuing life and liberty - Robin Bunce

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CONTENTS:

Introduction

Section 1: Signs of change, 1945-1955
President Truman and Civil Rights
The NAACP and education
The extent of change by 1955
Exam focus

Section 2: The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Little Rock campaign
Sit-ins and freedom rides
From Albany to Birmingham
March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act (1964)
Voting rights: 1957-1965
Martin Luther King's northern campaigns
Opposition to civil rights
Key players: King, Kennedy and Johnson
Achievements of peaceful protest
Exam focus

Section 3: Black Nationalism and Black Power
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
Exam focus

Section 4: Protest culture and the 1960s
Mass culture
Feminism
Exam focus

Glossary
Timeline
Answers