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Martin Luther King et les droits civiques

Raconter l'histoire du mouvement des droits civiques au prétérit & enrichir son vocabulaire (3e, préparation au brevet)

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Cette activité de compréhension sur « Martin Luther King et les droits civiques » en troisième entraîne à lire, analyser et répondre à des questions en anglais. Elle suit le programme officiel de troisième. Au programme : Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, Segregation in the American South, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956), From Birmingham to Washington: « I have a dream » (1963). Lis le document, réponds puis vérifie immédiatement tes réponses pour progresser. Un bon moyen de travailler la méthode, d'enrichir son vocabulaire et de préparer les contrôles. Ressource gratuite proposée par un professeur particulier à Marseille pour réussir en anglais en troisième.
1Lis cette courte biographie de Martin Luther King, puis réponds aux questions en anglais.

« A short life, a long dream » — from a museum leaflet, Atlanta.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929, the son and grandson of Baptist ministers. At six, he lost his best friend, a white boy, because the boy's parents forbade their son to play with a Black child. Martin never forgot it.

He was a brilliant student: he entered university at fifteen and became a pastor at twenty-five. In 1955, in Montgomery, he led the bus boycott that followed Rosa Parks's arrest. His house was bombed, but he refused to answer violence with violence.

For thirteen years, King travelled six million miles and gave more than 2,500 speeches. The police arrested him twenty-nine times. In August 1963, he told a crowd of 250,000 people in Washington about his dream of an America without racism. A year later, he received the Nobel Peace Prize; he gave the prize money to the movement.

On 4 April 1968, in Memphis, a white gunman killed him on the balcony of his motel. He was only thirty-nine. Today, a national holiday, hundreds of schools and more than 900 streets in the United States carry his name.

2Questions
Q1 What happened to Martin when he was six years old?
Q2 At what age did King enter university, and at what age did he become a pastor?
Q3 What did King refuse to do after his house was bombed?
Q4 Give two figures that show how hard King worked during the thirteen years of his struggle.
Q5 What did King do with the money of the Nobel Prize?
Q6 In your own words, explain the title of the leaflet: « A short life, a long dream ». Answer in two sentences.
Voir le corrigé
  1. he lost his best friend, a white boy, because the boy's parents forbade him to play with a Black child
  2. at fifteen and at twenty-five
  3. he refused to answer violence with violence
  4. he travelled six million miles and gave more than 2,500 speeches
  5. he gave it to the movement
  6. Réponse libre — exemple : King's life was short because he was killed at thirty-nine. But his dream of equality continues today: his name is everywhere in the United States and people still fight for his ideas.
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