History

• Development of the Civil Rights Movement

  1. Draw your own flow of the main development

  2. Complete the explanation

  3. Add arrows

  4. Use the points in the explanation
• Under the leadership of Martin Luther King the campaign achieved the passing of the Civil Rights Act
• 700,000 March on Washington, 50,000 white Americans marched where Martin Luther King gave 'I have a dream' speech


  August 1963
• Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination illegal in employment and public facilities


  1964
• Voting Rights Act - allowed states to ensure voting rights regardless of race, colour or previous condition of servitude


  1965
• Before the Voting Rights Act, only 2.6% of African Americans were registered to vote in Selma, Alabama
• Tactics used in the Civil Rights Movement

  1. Nonviolent protest

  2. Marching

  3. Challenging intimidation and violence
• Civil Rights Act - stopped discrimination in housing based on race, religion, national origin, gender


  1968
• Martin Luther King assassinated

  1968