Selma to Montgomery March

Read the text and choose the elements which are correct about the year 1963.

• 250.000 people peacefully protested in Washington D.C

• People protested against black people's rights

• People wanted equal rights between black and white

"Martin Luther King delivered his famous 'I have a dream' speech."

How would you translate the verb "to deliver" in french? (30 secondes)

Read this text. Can we say that the march in Washington DC and the speech given by MLK worked?

• Yes

• No

What does the civil rights act do? Tick the correct answer(s)

• it says that black people can't sit where they want in buses

• it says that black people will have schools just for them

• it says that you cannot give less freedom to black people anymore

• It says that segregation becomes legal

Read this text and compare the event in 1964 and this event, in 1965.

Can we say that the Civil Rights Act stopped racism and freedom limitation for black people?

• Yes

• No

NB : a voter registration --> s'incrire sur les liste électorales, pour pouvoir voter.

Focus on paragraph 1: What happened in Selma, Alabama?

• The sheriff died

• The sheriff helped black people to vote, but white people disagreed and protested

• The sheriff refused to give black people the right to vote

After a boy was killed, what was decided?

• a violent reaction to demand the right to vote

• a peaceful march to ask for the right to vote

Focus on the second paragraph : what happened during the march? tick the correct answer(s)

• the police let them march

• the police hit unarmed people

• everything was filmed and all the country saw the images

• all the country wanted the police to stop them

thanks to television, the march officially became legal and the US president passed a law to ensure black people's right to vote

• true

• false

Watch the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2CAKYVqfOk&feature=youtu.be

This is an extract from Selma, the movie which tells the story of the march. Listen to this fictive Dr King and give one or two lexical fields you have heard in his statement.

(15 minutes)