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ROSA PARK Une femmes battante Introduction En 1865, le Président Lincoln abolit l’esclavage. C’est la fin de la guerre civile américaine,  et le début d’une nouvelle ère pour les afro-américains.  En 1870, grâce au XVIe amendement,  ces derniers obtiennent enfin le droit de vote. Cependant, les mentalités n’évoluent pas rapidement : une nouvelle série de lois votées dans les États du Sud (les lois Jim Crow), limitent leurs droits dans de nombreux domaines.  Même si les esclaves sont dorénavant

institutrice avant son mariage, était la fille d'Adam Daniel Williams, pasteur pendant dix-sept ans de l'Eglise baptiste Ebenezer et pionnier de la résistance aux discriminations raciales : membre de la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, il avait lutté pour obtenir un collège secondaire pour les Noirs et fait boycotter un journal raciste. Son père, Martin Luther King Senior, était également pasteur, et il succéda d'ailleurs dès 1931 à Adam Williams dans la responsabilité de la paroisse

s'asseoir où ils veulent dans l'autobus. 2. Que les chauffeurs soient plus courtois à l'égard de toutes les personnes. 3. Que des chauffeurs noirs soient engagés. Le responsable local de la NAACP ( National association for the advancement of colored people), où Rosa Parks travaille, obtient la libération de la jeune femme.Sous l’impulsion de Martin Luther King , la communauté noire décide de boycotter la compagnie d’autobus concernée. Le boycott sera total durant 381 jours, la plupart des salariés

Rosa Parks est la fille ainée d’une famille de deux enfants. Son père est charpentier et sa mère institutrice. A onze ans elle est envoyée à l’industrial school for girls à Montgomery en Alabama où habite sa tante. Dans sa jeunesse, elle subit le racisme parce qu’elle est noire . .En 1932 elle épouse Raymond Parks, un militant de la cause des droits civiques et membre de la NAACP . Le 1er décembre 1955, à ­Montgomery, Rosa Parks, s’assoit dans un bus et refuse de se lever pour céder la place à

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

tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness- an American, a What people "�see"tm is most likely not me. I"tmm comfortable at home wearing one orange sock and one purple sock, but if I leave the house, I have to make myself "�look"tm presentable. What is this look? Is it the look that others might give me for having on different color socks? People have defined themselves based on how someone else perceives them. I respond by saying, "�I"tmm not trying to

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

up against oppression. Of those are Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, both militants for black peoples’ rights and both assassinated. C.P Ellis, once exalted Cyclops of the KKK, analyses the motives of racism. In his interview with Studs Terkel, he explains that poverty and lack of education are the two main factors which lead to intolerance. After slavery was abolished, some white people found that they were denied the American dream whilst the black community was beginning to access education

establishment of segregation was a response by white southern 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

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 with