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 starter activity. What does the story of Emmett Till tell us about the challenges facing the Civil Rights campaign in the southern states of America?. How did civil rights campaigns develop between 1955 and 1962?. To identify reasons for early civil rights successes

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  1. starter activity What does the story of Emmett Till tell us about the challenges facing the Civil Rights campaign in the southern states of America?

  2. How did civil rights campaigns develop between 1955 and 1962? To identify reasons for early civil rights successes Compare similarities & differences between landmark test cases  Aims

  3.  Your task • Study the information on Emmett Till & Autherine Lucy on p.61 and list the reasons why these two cases are so significant. Emmett Till with his mother Autherine Lucy with Thurgood Marshall

  4. Significance of Till & Lucy cases • Media interest – trial & funeral of Till with open casket; expulsion of 1st black student • Legal prosecution - 1st time whites had been accused of murder of a black; Lucy to Alabama University to federal court • Lack of presidential intervention - President Eisenhower didn’t comment on either case, in contrast with Truman

  5.  Your task • Read p.62 and note down what was helping civil rights advance and what was limiting them Students at Alabama University, burning desegregation literature

  6. Help & hindrance • Presidential interventions – e.g. Truman, e.g. ‘To Secure These Rights’ (1947) • Key legal rulings against segregation in housing, interstate railroads and education, e.g. Brown (1954) & Brown II (1955) • Supreme court support, e.g. Earl Warren • Growth of NAACP • Key individuals, e.g. Lucy & Rosa Parks • BUT lack of Congressional support & lack of support from Eisenhower

  7. Study the events and impact of Brown (1954 & 5), Montgomery Bus Boycott (1956) & Little Rock (1957) (p.63-66 & 69-71). What similarities & differences do you notice between the cases?

  8.  Extension task • Conduct some further research on Rosa Parks. Read p. 66-8 and list reasons why she is the best remembered female campaigner in the civil rights movement. Does she deserve this title?

  9.  Plenary • What was significant about the Emmett Till and Autherine Lucy cases? • Give 3 similarities & 3 differences between the early landmark test cases of the civil rights movement.

  10.  Homework • Study p.56-62 & p. 70-6 and complete a scales chart weighing up evidence that Eisenhower took positive steps to advance civil rights and evidence he did little. • What factors influenced Eisenhower’s decisions?

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