Bonjour !
1 - 12 million black slaves were sent from Africa to the Western world from the 1500s to 1750.
2- People who helped the Black slaves were called the "conductors" and the name of a famous organization was the "Underground Railroad".
3 - The 13th Amendment of the American Constitution declared slaves free.
4 - The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is a civil rights organisation. It's the nation's largest and most well known civil rights organization.
5 - The Harlem Renaissance started during the 1920's in New York City. Black artists, poets, writers and musicians were concerned.
6 - This famous movement is the civil rights movement.
7 - We can name Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.
8 - In 1963, Martin Luther Kind organized a huge March in Washington, D.C. that attracted more than 200 000 marchers. The title of his famous speech was "I Have a Dream".
9 - Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama ran for the presidential elections in the USA.
10 - The equivalent of "discrimination positive" in America is "affirmative action".
Vocabulary :
Freed : Libéré
Escape : S'échapper
Freedom : Liberté
Civil rights : Droits civiques
Demonstration : Manifestation
Demonstrate : Manifester
Peaceful : Pacifique
Move to : Déménager
Huge : Énorme, Immense
The early 1960's : Début des années 1960
J'espère t'avoir aidé. Bon courage !
