Classe:
DO Ali, the biopic
→ Textbook p. 50
Use these 3 stills from the film Ali, as well as what you hear in the movie, to learn more about
the context. Complete the texts next to the pictures.
Colasens GNLY
1. When Muhammad Ali was a child,
black people were not ...
to sit with white people in buses. They
had to sit at the ................, while
white people sat at the front (so that
they could get off the bus more quickly
in case of an emergency evacuation).
This was called ...
HING ORCHICAGOYOT
2. This newspaper covers the tragic
death of 14-year-old Emmett Till,
an .................
from ............
........... He was
brutally ..................... in 1955 by
white people, supposedly for flirting
with a white woman. The crime was
rightly recognized as a .....
by many Americans, but the
all-male, all-white jury declared
the assailants not ..........
3. Malcolm X (1925-1965) was a civil
rights activist who encouraged
African Americans to fight
inequalities "by any means
necessary". Indeed, in the speech
he delivers in the film Ali, we can
hear him say: "your times will never
get better unless .............
..." and "we
don't teach you to ..........

1. When Muhammad Ali was a child, black people were not allowed to sit with white people in buses. They had to sit at the back , while white people sat at the front (so that they could get off the bus more quickly in case of an emergency evacuation).

This was called The Chicago boycott

2. This newspaper covers the tragic death of 14-year-old Emmett Till,an African American from Mississippi. He was brutally lynched / killed in 1955 by white people, supposedly for flirting with a white woman. The crime was rightly recognized as a murder by many Americans, but the all-male, all-white jury declared the assailants not guilty .

3. Malcolm X (1925-1965) was a civil rights activist who encouraged African Americans to fight inequalities "by any means necessary". Indeed, in the speech he delivers in the film Ali, we can hear him say: "your times will never get better unless you make them better." and "we don't teach you to turn the other check."