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Final Task

Black Live Matter

Carol Moseley Braun

Louis Armstrong

Beyoncé

Jesse Jackson

Angela Davis

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Jesse Jackson

• Born on October 8, 1941 (age 81) in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.
• American political activist, Baptiste minister and politician : candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. And served as a shadow U.S. senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.

Jesse Jackson is a child born out of wedlock he will therefore suffer harassment from other children. He will suffer the laws of racial segregation, until 1955 : the Montgomery bus boycott. He studies in an establishment reserved for blacks. In 1959, he enters thanks to a sports scholarship in the University of Illinois a predominantly white university. At the end of 1 year, he will head towards North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University which is essentially black. This changewas motivated by present racism in the University of Illinois.He will study theology that he will stop during of his course. Under the influence of Pastor Martin Luther King, he enters in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In april 4, 1968 he stands by the side of Martin Luther King, during his assassination.

October 8, 1941

1964

Jesse Jackson

Important dates

February 15, 2003

1989

June 1968

July 19, 2021

August 3, 2000

1979

1971

Jesse Jackson

Contribution to African-American history

1984

2020

Angela Davis

• Born on January 26, 1944 (age 78) in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
• Communist, pacifist and feminist activist who defends human rights in particular those in the minority, philosopher, academic, and author.

During his youth, Angela Davis is marked by racism, the humiliation of racial segregation and the present climate of violence in his daily life. His two parents have militant experience. She frequents all his childhood a school for blacks. During these 14 years, two opportunities are offered to herfor these secondary studies : either a school for blacks where she can see medical studies and become a pediatrician, or a private school which aims to placed black students from the south at a coeducational university in the North which is an experimental program. She chooses the school of New York and will try the mixed university experience. During those years in New York, she enters in a Marxist-Leninist youth organization named Advance. This is his first militant experience, she is participating for the first time to demonstrations support civil rights movements. She will continue these studies at a university or she will be one of 3 black students of first year.

January 26,1944

1969

Angela Davis

Important dates

2006

January 5, 1971

August 7,1970

1980 and 1984

October 13,1970

Angela Davis

Contribution to African-American history

• Angela Davis is an activist in the civil rights movement in U.S.A.
• She is a member of Black Panther Party, and is therefore monitored by the FBI.
• She is being chased by justice following the hostage taking in a court with a murderous end committed the August 7, 1970 where she got involved by supporting 3 black American prisoners accused of murdering a prison guard.

Carol Moseley-Braun

• Born on August 16, 1947 (age 75) in Chigago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Former U.S. Senator, an American diplomat, politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999..

Carol Mosely-Braunlives a difficult childhood where she suffers violence from his father and the divorce of these parents in 1963. After this divorce, she will live with his mother and his brothers at his grandmother's place in a known neighborhood to be a violent black ghetto, or they will stay there for 2 years. She joins the Black Panther Party as a volunteer of the breakfast program for underprivileged children. She will get son bachelor university in political science in 1969 and will continue these studies until obtaining of his Juris Doctor.

August 16, 1947

From 1933 to 1999

Carol Moseley Braun

Important dates

From 1999 to 2001

December 1, 1988

1978

1992

January 5, 1979

Carol Moseley Braun

Contribution to African-American history

• She is the first African American woman to be elected to the United States Senate.

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Louis Armstrong

• Born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
• Dead on July 6, 1971 (age 69) in New York City, U.S.A.
• American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz.

Louis Armstrong is educated by his paternal grandmother because his dad left homeshortly after his birth and his mother is good at everything in white. Child he sings in the streets and lives in a difficult neighborhood and performs various small trades to help his family. He commits various acts of delinquency and is therefore sent to a home for children of color abandoned. In this home, he learns to play the cornet. Once released in 1914, he plays the cornet in the neighborhood cabarets. From 1918, he plays in brass bands with Fate Marable Orchestra on steamboats which goes up the Mississippi.

1922

Louis Armstrong

Important dates

1901

1925-1926

1923

1971

1924-1925

Louis Armstrong

Contribution to African-American history

• In September 1957, Louis Armstrong stand up in the name of black people.
• Behind the cheerful figure of the trumpeter who did not give up playing public entertainers, hid a committed man against segregation, a musician, born at the turn of the century, who laid the foundations of modern jazz.

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Beyoncé

• Born on September 4, 1981 (age 41) in Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
• American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress.

The singing talent of Beyoncé is discovered during a dance class that she practices at her school in Texas. At 7 years old, she begins to attract the attention of the press, by being mentioned in the Houston Chronicle as a candidate for local awards arts and spectacle. In the fall of 1990, she enters a music school in Houston. At 9 years old, she joins a group of 6 girls who raps and dances nammed Girl’s Tyme. In 2003, she released her first solo album. She will become one of the best-selling artists in the world, with over 200 million records sold worldwide. Beyoncé is the mother of 3 children, with her husband since 2008 Jay-Z.

1987

September 4, 1981

Beyoncé

Important dates

2006

2002

April 14 and 21, 2018

2003

1999

• During the Coachella festival, Beyoncé performs 2 performances considered as committed and history for the African American community.
• First black woman to be headline the Californian festival.
• First black woman to win the prize for "Best pop author of the year" in 2002.
• The highest paid African American singer in the history of black artists.

Beyoncé

Contribution to African-American history

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