Big picture and key ideas
Big picture and key ideas
Civil rights are the legal and political rights of citizens, such as voting, equal protection, and equal access to education and public facilities. Race relations is the wider story of how racial groups interacted socially, economically, culturally, and politically.
Step-by-step lessons on Edexcel A Level History Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build a secure grasp of the outline narrative for your breadth and depth periods first, since the source-evaluation and historical-interpretations questions that carry a large share of the marks depend on that contextual knowledge.