PS4: Rights and Protest
Prescribed Subject 4: Rights and protest
This topic covers the struggle for rights and freedoms in the USA and in South Africa.
The main themes for this topic are outlined below but the full syllabus can be found on MyIB.
It is important that you read the IB introduction to this topic carefully as well as the prescribed content.
Full source papers for this PS are in the Assessment section of the site here: PS4: Rights and Protest: Full Source Papers
This topic focuses on the struggles for rights and freedoms in two countries:
- The first focuses on the United States of America during the period of civil rights activism 1954 - 1964.
- The second focuses on events in South Africa starting with the election of the National Party in 1948 and ending with the imprisonment of Mandela in 1964
Three key themes are identified for each case study: the nature of discrimination that existed, actions and protests that were taken within each country to challenge the discrimination, and the roles of different groups and individuals
As with the other Paper 1 topics, the themes for each case study are the same to allow teachers to draw comparisons between the case studies. However, exams will only ever be set on one of the case studies and will never be of a comparative nature.
See the link above for the full details of each theme.