LG 18 (Unit 6)

Topics: South Africa/Apartheid; USA Civil Rights; Role of Women

READINGS:
*=Requir Title
ed

Pages

Falk: Student Workbook

215-224, 227-231

Howarth: The World Since

1900 First Edition

285-288; 247-252; 305-306

Howarth: The World Since

1900 Second Ed

283-287; 231-239; 307-308

Demarco: The World This

Century

199-205; 236-241

Mitchner and Tuffs: Global

Forces

not useful

Catchpole: Map History of

the Modern World

104-105

Vocabulary
1. Segregation
2. Desegregation
3. Dr. Martin Luther King
4. The Great Society
5. Malcolm X
6. Black Panthers
7. Rosa Parks
8. Civil Rights Act 1954
9. CORE
10.
NAACP
11.
Little Rock High
12.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
13.
Freedom Riders
14.
I Have a Dream
15.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
16.
17.
18.

Apartheid
Afrikaner
Bantustans

19.
Sharpeville Massacre
20.
Nelson Mandela
21.
Soweto Massacre
22.
Steve Biko
23.
African National Congress
(ANC)
24.
Betty Friedan
25.
Feminism
26.
Glass Ceiling
27.
Pink Ghettos
28.
The Second Shift
29.
Womens Lib
30.
Gloria Steinem
31.
Golda Meir
32.
National Organization for
Women (NOW)
33.
Indira Gandhi
34.
Margaret Thatcher
35.
Benazir Bhutto

Written Response Questions

1. Explain how the South African government established and maintained white
rule in South Africa after 1945.
2. Explain how the Civil Rights movement in the United States developed during
the 1950s and 1960s.
3. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a triumph in the struggle for integration in the
U.S.A.
A) Identify those opposed to integration and describe the reasons for their
opposition
B) Explain the steps taken by the Civil Rights Movement which led to the
Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
Focus Question: Choose ONE.
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the struggle for human rights, including the
Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in
South Africa.
2. Analyze the influence of public opinion, including direct action by individuals or
groups, on national policy.
The question can be done in PARAGRAPH OR POINT FORM (be thorough
though!)
Final Exam or Research Project