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Unit 1 Section B: Changing Relations, Northern Ireland 1965 to 1998
Quick questions on O'Neill and the civil rights movement - CCEA GCSE History
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"The civil rights movement emerged because long-standing discrimination met a new willingness to protest. Unfair housing, jobs and the property-based local franchise, sharpened by gerrymandering in places like Londonderry, gave nationalists real grievances. A better-educated younger generation, inspired by the American civil rights movement, demanded equality within Northern Ireland rather than a united Ireland.
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When was NICRA founded and what did it campaign for? [2 marks]
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Name two forms of discrimination nationalists faced. [2 marks]
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Why did O'Neill resign in 1969? [3 marks]
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