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who told the people that ‘we shall overcome’. Yes we can”. it was 45 years ago, when Martin Luther King made his famous “ I have a dream” speech. On 28 August, 1963, he stood in front of 250,000 people, who had marched on Washington to urge Congress to pass civil rights legislation and said: “When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white

Never forget Freedom is ours to get Together it’s better Cause we’re all brothers Remember history All the hangings in one territory Colored people victims of segregation A story of fear and domination Looking back in the past, looking back when it is fixed 1960 Georgia Washington Alabama Dark places in America All the same, all the pain, Each lynching in vain Slavery is abolished But remain established Segregation of the nation Well known as oppression Where freedom

wearing the same clothes as nowdays. The black man is wearing a white clothes of waiter whereas the white boy is wearing a dark clothes, their clothes look pretty old fashioned. Furthermore the furniture that composed the restaurant do not look modern. The picture shows two people who are in different situation. On the one hand,on the left, it's a child who is perhaps stand properly and polished. On the other hand, on the right , it's a adult. Unlike the black adult, who is a waiter, the white child

X. Malcolm X’ childhood was commun for a black child. Indeed, he had to face discrimination at school for example. He was treated as if he was invisible. He was called “NIGGER “. Moreover, his family suffered several persecution raids from the KKK. This persecution was due to the implication of his father into a black movement which aim was the creation of a country for black people in Africa. In fact, Malcolm X’ father was racist against White people, and because of his opinion, he was killed

des nègres, in L’Esprit des Lois. (page 3) • Texte de Voltaire, Le nègre de Surinam, in Candide. (page 4) • Explications du texte de Montesquieu (page 5) • Explications du texte de Voltaire (pages 6-7) • Texte de Richard Wright, Black Boy (pages 8-9) • Texte de Jean-Claude Carrière, Les Fantômes de Goya (page 10) • Explications du texte de Richard Wright (pages 11-12) • Explications du texte de Jean-Claude Carrière (pages 13-14) • Conclusion (page 15) • Bibliographie

for the equality of races and the rights of American Blacks . He pronounced in 1963 a famous speech that stroke the mind of Americans : " I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" . Today , has Martin Luther King's dream come true? ? In the past , black people were considered as a lower race by white people . Segregation has been present for a long time , "separate

during the reconstruction, the 14th Amendment gave blacks and whites the same rights. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court allowed blacks and whites to have separate facilities and services because of Souterners who didn't want black people to have the same rights as them. Consequently, black people were treated unequally and they were seperated from whites in schools, hospitals or waiting rooms. Segregation began. But in 1950's and 1960's, black people fought for their rights and thanks to that they managed

Hillary Clinton and they were the last two competitors in the Democratic race for the nomination. Hillary Clinton’s campaign team unearthed the story of Pastor Jeremiah Wright to try and derail Obama’s campaign. Reverent Wright was the Pastor of the (black) United Trinity Church in Chicago’s South Side which the Obama family attended, and he had made violent sermons attacking America on racial grounds. So Clinton’s team tried to bring the campaign on racial grounds to show that Obama would be the president

clergyman, and he’s famous to be an iconic figure in advancement of civil rights, but also to use nonviolent methods to prove that black people must have the same rights than white people. During the 60’s, he fought for liberty, equality and freedom. He fought against racial segregation and racial discrimination, and he had an impact because few years after his dead, the black people were equal. King is most famous for his « I Have a Dream » speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the

1930, many Black people arrived in Harlem, during the First Great Migration, seeking better jobs and education for their children, and escaping a culture of violence. There were also numerous immigrants from the West Indies. As blacks moved in, white residents left. Some of those who remained made pacts not to sell or to rent to black people. There were many unequal racist treatments. For example, in 1920, one-room apartments in central Harlem rented for $40 to whites and $100–$125 to blacks. Because