3e Séq Black Lives Matter

Séquence Black Lives MAtter

Guide des séances

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Obama helps Finish a mural on Martin Luther King Day , Wash DC 2017

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They lived in wooden huts, they wore rags, their clothes were torn, they seem to be poor and tired. Women had to work like men. In the background we can noctice a cotton field.

Cotton Pickers, oil painting on panel by William Aiken Walker.

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L'obligation dans le passé: Pour évoquer une obligation on utilise: HAD To + Vb Pour évoquer une interdiction on utilise: was/were not allowed to + Vb was/were forbidden to + Vb Pour évoquer une permission on utilise: was/were allowed to + Vb

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The underground railroad: Describe the map: Pairwork: learn more about two famous historical figures

The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a teenagerwho runs away from the Georgia plantation where she andher family have been slaves for three generations. Cora’sgrandmother Ajarry was brought to the United States fromAfrica on a slave ship and died after decades working in thefields of the Randall plantation. Cora’s mother, Mabel, ranaway, abandoning Cora, and everywhere she goes, Coralooks for answers about her mother’s fate. Left without hermother to protect her, Cora is mistreated by the otherslaves, although she shows her fierce nature, challenging a slave named Blake who tries to take her garden plot, andprotecting a young slave from the cruel master Terrance.Finally, she escapes with another slave, Caesar. They make it to a stop on the underground railroad, but not before some locals try to capture them and Cora kills a teenage white boyin order to get away.The underground railroad, in this novel, is an actual railroadwith stations below farms and houses. The first train takesCora and Caesar to South Carolina, where they are able tolive more like free people. The move from Georgia to SouthCarolina sets the pattern of telling a series of stories aboutBlack experience not just during slavery but throughoutAmerican history.

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Slavery was abolished in 1865. Former slaves were free but not considered as American citizens. Until the 1960s, the rights of many African Americans were limited.

Segregation:

Separation of people based on a race.
 Plessy vs. Ferguson: 1896. «Separate but equal».

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Learn more about the KKK

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation. Whites owned the land, the police, the government, the courtrooms, the law, the armed forces, and the press. The political system denied blacks the right to vote. Murders were conducted in secret and in public by white men. The blacks were harassed and abused, physically and verbally. These violent acts became a part of their life

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Ruby Bridges is known for being the first Black child to desegregate the all-White William Franz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

Strange fruit - Billie Holiday 1959

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The song was first recorded in 1959Billie Holiday was a famous blues singer, she died in 1959. Not only were African Americans discriminated but they were denied the protection of the law. If an African American was thought to have commited an « offence » by whites they were always at risk of being lynched by a white mob.After seeing this picture, Abel Meeropol a Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx, wrote Strange fruit, about the lynching of two Black men.

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Watch Mojo: History of the Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights protesters and Woolworth's Sit-In, Durham, NC, 1960.

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Eric Reid & Colin Kaepernick kneeling during national anthem 2016 to protest against police brutality

Olympic Games Mexico 1968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos

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Why did George Floyd die? The history of police brutality in the U.S. - BBC

In 2013, three female Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter began with a social media hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin back in 2012. The movement grew nationally in 2014 after the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York. Since then it has established itself as a worldwide movement, particularly after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, MN. Most recently, #Black Lives Matter has spearheaded demonstrations worldwide protesting police brutality and systematic racism that overwhelmingly effects the Black community.

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Final Task

Choose one of these two events: - Michael Brown in Ferguson
- Trayvon Martin vs Zimmerman. In the aftermath of the event, write a speech denouncing racial inequalities and the state of racism in the US. Your speech shall be well-structured, contain rhetorical effects and historical facts. It shall use the gram