This informative GCSE video captures the US Civil Rights Movement between 1945 and 1968.
The video covers the new WJEC Spec and provides information on the following:
the impact of the Second World War, including the contribution of African Americans, on Civil Rights, including:
• the experiences overseas of returning African American servicemen and women
• Truman’s desegregation of the armed forces
• how Civil Rights developed between 1953 and 1968, including:
• the impact and consequences of Brown vs Topeka
• the significance of the March on Washington, 1963
• the contribution and impact of civil rights activists, including:
• Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X; bus boycotts and sit-ins
• the passage and impact of civil rights legislation.