Bonjour,
What do you know about Martin Luther King ?
Year of birth : 15 January 1929
Year and cause of death : On Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1954 : Martin Luther King takes charge of the Dexter Baptist church in Montgomery.
1963 : on August 28, Martin Luther King gave his speech "I have a dream" during the march on Washington which brought together several thousand blacks and white liberals. Time magazine named him "man of the year."
1964 : On July 2, adoption of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits all forms of discrimination and segregation in public places.
On October 14, Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
How good are you at the American segregation timeline ?
1619 : arrival of the first African slaves on the American soils. ( witch is not exactly true because enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s. )
1849 : Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes an instrumental leader of the Underground Railroad.
1861 : Start of the Civil War.
1865 : The Civil War ends.
Lincoln is assassinated. Seventeen-year-old Augustus Saint Gaudens is so moved by the sight of Lincoln’s body lying in state that he views it twice.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting slavery, is ratified.
The era of Reconstruction begins.
1881 : Jim Crow laws about segregation.
Put the words in each given sentence at the simple past or past perfect.
- On the first day, when Ruby Bridges arrived at her school, a furious crowd had gathered to protest.
- When Malcolm X died in 1965, he had got shot more than twenty times.
- Martin Luther King had met his wife when he became famous.
- The boycott of all the public transport by the Black community in Montgomery, Alabama lasted more than a full year before the Supreme Court had decided to but an end to the problem.
