A SEGREGATED SOCIETY segregated society.

A SEGREGATED SOCIETY
Work in groups of 2 or 3. Look at the pictures very carefully, read the text and explain what was a
segregated society.
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Observe et traduis:
Even if slavery was abolished, black people didn’t have the right to take the entrance for white
people (of a public place for example), they had to take a separate entrance.
Quelles sont les notions traduites dans cet énoncé?
Connais-tu d’autres mots traduisant la même notion ? Complète le tableau ci-dessous
En utilisant les notions récapitulées dans le tableau et en rebrassant le vocabulaire du texte et des
photos, rédigez des phrases dans lesquelles vous préciserez « les droits » de la population noire dans les
années 1900 aux Etats-Unis. (EE/EO) (Vous utiliserez la voix passive également)
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Your sentences :
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Your friends’ sentences :
FICHE PROF
A SEGREGATED SOCIETY
Obligation/possibilité à réaliser une action dans le
passé
Interdiction/impossibilité de réaliser une action dans
le passé
* had to+BV
*had the right to+BV
* could+BV
*were permitted to
*were allowed to
*were not allowed to +BV
*didn’t have the right to+BV
*were not permitted to+BV
*Couldn’t+BV
En utilisant les notions récapitulées dans le tableau et en rebrassant le vocabulaire du texte et des photos,
rédigez des phrases dans lesquelles vous préciserez « les droits » de la population noire dans les années 1900 aux
Etats-Unis. (EE/EO)
Le travail est fait en groupe, chaque groupe produit 5 phrases et doit écrire d’autres
phrases produites par les autres groupes.
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By the 1900’s the southern legislators carried segregation to the extremes. Here are some of the years
and states where it started:
1914: Louisiana required separate entrances for blacks and whites.
1915: Oklahoma segregated telephone booths.
1920: Mississippi made it a crime to advocate or publish “arguments or suggestions in favor of social
equalities or of interracial between whites and Negro’s”.
Arkansas had segregation at racetracks.
Texas prohibited integrated boxing matches.
Kentucky required separate schools, and also that no textbook would be issued to a black would ever
be reissued or redistributed, they also prohibited interracial marriage.
Georgia bared black ministers from performing a marriage between white couples.
New Orleans created segregated red light districts for white and blacks prostitutes.
When the U.S. entered WW II the south was a fully segregated society. Everything from schools,
restaurants, hotels, train cars, waiting rooms, elevators, public bathrooms, colleges, hospitals, cemetery,
swimming pools, drinking fountains, prisons, and even churches were for whites or blacks but never for both.
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