History A-Level
Racial violence and resistance
What Racial violence and resistance means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Racial violence and resistance
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The Chicago riot of 1919 and the Tulsa riot of 1921 were violent white resistance to black settlement, housing competition and economic advance.
Topics that use Racial violence and resistance
- Paper 3, Option 39.1: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009 - 1 The changing geography of civil rights issues (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- De facto versus de jure segregation
- Suburbanisation and uneven de-segregation
- Urban settlement and community building
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