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evolution of Black people, from segregation to their recognition in the consumer society. I’m going to deal with the organization made by Blacks to get involved into the consumer society. Segregation targeted Blacks not only in every day life, but also in different area like housing and consumption. Segregation was everywhere: there were no Blacks on TV, Real Estate companies were not considering Black people as customers. More than that, during the creation of suburbs, Black and White people were separated

To what extent has Martin Luther King helped black people to be integrated in the american society? To start with, Michael Luther King Jr. was born on January 25, 1929. Later, his own name changed to Martin. He began to a pastors' family. Indeed, his grandfather was a pastor and served from 1914 to 1931. His father then served too and after his death, Martin Luther acted as a co-pastor. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia: he received the B.A in 1948 from Morehouse College a distinguished

civil rights movement in the America. She refused to give her seating place to a white man. In the 60’s in the United States, white people had the priority in buses for seats over black people. Everything was segregated at this time: schools, churches, restaurants, bars … It was the period of the an important differentiation between black people and white people. In refusing to surrender her seat to a white man, Rosa inspired a courageous freedom movement that lives on, even today. It

leaders to the abolition of slavery and the humiliation of the civil war (1861-1865). After 1865 follow a period of reconstruction. During reconstruction, the federal government took measures to protect Black people but the southern states did not accept it. They were determined to “put the Black man in his place” with Jim Crow laws, segregation laws which were meant to preserve what they called “white supremacy”. * The Ante-bellum South Slavery was qualified as a “positive good” before

White vision VS Black Vision Arguments to support these visions Clichés associated to black people of Africa ( Canibalsm ,rape, shrunken heads, zulu warriors, voodoo, witch doctors, evil, caveman ? Black people and racims in publicity Origine of these clichés Aborigene : Caveman or a organisated society ? >DEBATE conclusion http://www.advertisingtimes.fr/2010/08/le-racisme-dans-la-publicite-en-50.html http://www.lesoir.be/archives?url=/culture/livres/2010-04-29/j-accuse-tintin-au-congo-767122

country. But the black community still did not attain an equal status. Indeed, an era of segregation and racism against “the Negros”, as they were often called, followed. Racism and violence escalated in post-civil war America and associations like the Ku Klux Klan grew. Often, the black community preferred to stay silent or become “Oreos”, but some individuals decided to stand up against oppression. Of those are Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, both militants for black peoples’ rights and both

Jim Crow laws that prohibited blacks from using the same public accommodations as whites. In 1890 the government of Louisiana passed a law called separate car act. The arrest of Homer Plessy on 1892 was part of a planned to challenge the Louisiana Separate Car Act. Facts of the case: The case of Plessy v. Ferguson was a very important case in American History because it enforced segregation even making it legal, and made segregation a concrete reality for the people of the United States. It began

Literary comment The history of black people is still in the forefront of everyone's minds today. In fact, especially in the United States, blacks went unnoticed for years. Slavery, lynching, segregation, they were victims of scorn and disdain during the 18th century until the late 20th century. The act of lynching consisted of executing a person, an accused, without regular trial or jury, by inflicting serious violence on that person. The execution of black people in the United States began in 1865

in law ant the narrator of the story. Casper and Kristien speak about the conflict between the Whites and the Blacks. We wonder how the debate grows up. On the one hand we will see what happened in South Africa on the eve of the general election, and on the other hand we will study the position of the two characters. Before the general election of 1995, the contest between the blacks and the whites was violent. Indeed, thanks to Casper, we can know what was the life in South Africa in 1994. Live

South Africa in 1994, he promised he would build a nation where people of different races could live together in peace and harmony. The racial bloodbath (bain de sang) feared by many had been averted. "The time for the healing (guérison) of the wounds (bléssure) has come," Mr Mandela, who has now turned 90, said at the time. "We enter into a covenant (alliance) that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white - will be able to walk tall. A Rainbow Nation at peace