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History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 15: Black peoples of America from slavery to equality?
Section 6: From emancipation to segregation: how free were black people?

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • about the ways in which the American constitution and state law affected black people
  • to assess how aspects of black peoples' lives changed after emancipation
  • how the attitudes and actions of white people differed towards black people after emancipation

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Outline the situation in the south during the Reconstruction period and in particular the independence of state governments versus the importance of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.
  • Pupils work in groups with information cards, each one of which contains details of organisations, factors, etc that tended to promote or inhibit black peoples' freedom in the years after emancipation, eg sharecropping, Freedmen's Bureau, the Jim Crow laws, Liberia and Marcus Garvey, the Ku Klux Klan, National Negro Business League, Niagara Movement, NAACP and NUL, Negro History Week, the First and Second World Wars, Harlem and jazz, Father Divine.
  • Ask pupils to decide which were positive, promoting the wellbeing of black peoples, and which negative. Place these on a 'balance sheet' to determine losses and gains.
  • demonstrate an understanding that Black Americans did not have the same freedoms as White Americans and that this varied between states and over time
  • use and evaluate information as it relates to black peoples' experiences within American society

Points to note
  • This activity takes the issues through into the twentieth century as an overview of the issues.
  • There are opportunities to develop some of the citizenship issues introduced at the beginning of the unit.
  • Producing the 'balance sheet' should involve considerable discussion, particularly when pupils try to reach a decision on factors that are not clear-cut, eg Liberia.

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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be a slave?
2. African roots: where did most Black Americans originate?
3. Slavery in Africa: a Portuguese turning point?
4. Sold into slavery: what was the reality of the Atlantic slave trade?
5. Freedom: how was it achieved?
6. From emancipation to segregation: how free were black people?
7. From segregation to civil rights: did the Civil Rights movement bring freedom for black people?