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Protest songs began in America in the 15th century with Work Songs: the black slaves song this in the fields to protest against their slavery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI8NH1421-c

Protest music has always been an essential form of political expression in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNCS27rtQ8

For example, with this song, in 1958 Louis Armstrong denounced the slavery of black Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMYbd2ZhhjE

And with this one, in 1970 he supported the Freedom Rides and the sit-ins. “We shall overcome” means “we will win”.

Jorja Smith defends the BLM movement by singing “by any means” in 2020. This song describes her feelings after the death of Georges Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0A1fvE8v_A

We have quoted those but there are many others protest songs that talk about black Americans racism.

Arthur and Léonie

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The Secession war was a civil war that started in 1861 because northerners lead by Abraham Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery and southerners didn’t agree. They wanted to create their owns state but the president Abraham Lincoln make them war to they stay in United States of America.
Secession war finished in 1865 with the vote of the thirteenth amendment that ensures freedom for all blacks people of America

Thomas Bossart et Nils

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Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii, he was born in a period that was still very racist and segregation still existed.
He was elected president twice from 2009 to 2017.
He was the 44th president of the United States of America and also the first black president to be elected.
After his second time of being president, he wasn’t allowed to be elected a third time. So his presidential campaign ended in 2017. Through out his years of being president, he won the Nobel prize of peace in 2009. In 2008, he put in place “yes, we can” to show that he was going to fight back racism . In 2010, the majority of poor people were black people, He put in place the law called “Affordable care act” to finance the health system for all Americans.

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Slavery began in 1620. They left Africa by ship to go to America.  Once in America, African people were sold by auction to work in fields and in master’s houses. American used African people because they were cheap. They were considered like animals. They leave in horrible life conditions alt ought they contributed to the enrichment of America.

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In 1955, in an America torn apart by racial segregation, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery. Arrested by the police and fined, she appealed her judgment and became the face of a national civil rights movement.
Alban Ewann

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His father, from a slavers family, joined a Church opposed to the slave trade. He was in opposition to the ideas of his family. Thanks to his intellectual abilities, he became a lawyer. He was elected President of the United States in 1860. The Civil War tears the United States apart. The war began in April 1861 after the election of President Abraham Lincoln, in favor of the abolition of slavery. His assassinated in 1865 and he will leave him in his verse a major political contribution, with the abolition of slavery

charlotte and anna

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Freedom Riders were people who were testing the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court, which says that segregated bus seating was unconstitutional, by travelling in Southern United States by bus in 1961
But sometimes, freedom riders were attacked by racist and hostile white people. The African American civil rights activists were beaten and insulted. These racist people put on fire Freedom riders’ buses.
Freedom rides stopped when Kennedy forced the segregated states to apply the federal law .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJqA6PQRh3U

By Matteo and Thomas.r

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Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in a catholic family.
He was a pastor and a non violent activist. Martin Luther King fought for peace and against poverty and the segregation racial. He organised a lot of action such as the Montgomery bus boycott. Martin Luther King’s most famous action was his speech in 28th August, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. This speech was famous around the world and everyone remembered the sentence “I have a dream”. He was supported by John Kennedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-PReWhMGM
In 1964, he became the youngest man who won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality.
In 1968 in Motel, Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. It could be that this assassination is a conspiracy of United States which would also have killed John Kennedy.
Clément et Eliott

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BLM is a Social movement to denounce racism discriminations and inequalities.
The movement began in July 2013, with the use of the #BlackLivesMatter on the social media after the shooting death of African-Americans in 2012.

The movement became nationally recognized for street demonstrations following the 2014 death of Michael Brown.

The Memorial Day to support the BLM movement was on May, the 25th last year.

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An example of separation between Whites and Blacks

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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that legalized racial segregation. They existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era (1865) until 1964, and were meant to put away African Americans from society by removing them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education… In this way, Whites and Blacks were separated and were forbidden to interact with each other. People who didn’t respect Jim Crow Laws were often arrested.

These laws were finally ended by the 14th amendment, also called the Civil Right Act. Clémentine Paoli, Julie Hermann, Lili-Marie Noël

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Sit-ins are mouvements created by a few black students in 1960 in Greensboro. Black and white people stayed in public places. They couldn’t be serve because of the segregation and wouldn’t leave. This movement grew by media and then, there were 70 000 participants. It concerned 20 states.
Through these mass actions were born the desegregation.

https://youtu.be/Zd3hih00AwE

Sidonie, Maëllys and Cloé