SEGREGATION IN THE USA

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I want to speak about segregation in the USA.

In the 1950′s, Black people had to sit at the back of buses.

They had to sit upstairs in cinemas.

They were not allowed to vote and they had to go to their own schools and universities.

 In 1954, the supreme court of the US said that segregation was against the law. Two years later, in 1956, segregation in buses was put to an end. The following year, President Eisenhower had to send National guardsmen to protect nine black students who wanted to go to school or university, in Little Rock Arkansas.

In july 1964, the civil right acts was signed by President Johnson : Segregation was banished.

 MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ROSA PARKS

Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Goergia. He wanted to study theology so he went to the north because there was no segregation there and he got his Ph.d .

After, Rosa Parks was arrested because she had sat at the front of the bus. Martin Luther King organised the boycott of buses in Montgomery.

To protest, Matin Luther king organised marches and peaceful demonstrations

In 1963, for the hundreth anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery ( signed by A.Lincoln),

Martin Luther king gave his famous speach  » I have a dream » in front of 250 000 people.

Martin Luther King wanted people to be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their characters.

Martin Luther King wanted segregation to be put to an end.

What a devoted man he was !

 

Kelly 3°4

23/05/2013