OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Period study with non-British depth study: International relations 1918-2001 + USA 1945-1974: the people and the state June 2022 question paper J410/07

Describe one action taken by the women’s movement between 1964 and 1975.

Explain the role of the Supreme Court in the achievement of civil rights for

African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s in the USA.

Explain the impact of the Red Scare in the USA between 1945 and 1954.

Study Source A.

Why was this source published in 1956?

Study Source B.

Explain how this source is useful to a historian studying the civil rights movement

between 1954 and 1964.

Source B

1. Not all white people are opposed to integrated buses.

2. The whole bus is now for the use of all people. Take a free seat.

3. Commit yourself to complete non-violence as you enter the bus.

4. Be polite and well behaved.

5. Remember that this is not a victory for Negroes alone, but for all Montgomery and the South. Do not boast! Do not brag!

6. Be quiet but friendly; proud, but not arrogant; joyous, but not boisterous.

An extract from a document entitled ‘Integrated Bus Suggestions’ issued by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). It was signed by Martin Luther King, the President of the MIA and issued shortly after the end of the boycott.

5* ‘Black Power did more to harm than to help the struggle for civil rights between 1964 and 1974.’

How far do you agree?