EPI Women in civil rights movement by Mrs Elmassoudi https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4 Female figures in American History en-us 2017-03-10 13:21:35 UTC 2026-03-22 14:55:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Group4: Dorothy Height https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159268964 2017-03-10 14:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159268964 Groupe 6: Amelia Boynton Robinson https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159269043
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Boynton_Robinson
She was born on august 18th 1911 in Savannah (Georgia). When  she was young she has milited for womens right to vote and she was a leader of  American civil right movement. She was a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. She made a lot for associations.   She was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Medal in 1990. In 2014 an actress played Amelia in Selma. She made a stroke and she died in August 26. 2015. She was 104 years old.]]> 2017-03-10 14:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159269043 Rosa Park https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159270638 She was born on February 4th 1913, in Tuskegee in Alabama in the USAand she was dead on octobrer 24th 2005 in Detroit, Michigan, in the USA. she was married to Raymond Parks form 1932 to 1977. She also had write a couple of books like  Dear Mrs Parks or Rosa Parks: My Story. 
 She is known for her refusal to give her seat on one Montgomery bus, so they orgenized removal of bus segregation.
She lit the match fot the Montgomery Movement, and she spent some years by working the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and she fight for black people's rights and racial segragation.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
]]> 2017-03-10 14:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159270638 Groupe 5:Mildred Loving https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159271078  Mildred Loving was born on July 22, 1939, in Central Point, Virginia.
 In 1967, Mildred Loving and her husband Richard successfully defeated Virginia's ban on interracial marriage via a famed Supreme Court ruling that had nationwide implications.  Mildred wrote to then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who suggested she contact the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Virginia law, also ending the remaining ban on interracial marriages in other states. The Lovings then lived as a legal, married couple in Virginia until Richard’s death in 1975. Mildred died in 2008.

]]> 2017-03-10 14:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159271078 Groupe 3:Angela avis https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159278109 Angela Davis was born on January 26,1944 in Alabama.She studied at the Sorbonne.She joined the U.S. Communist Party and was jailed . She writed books. She work like philosophy teacher and activiste. She fights for the egality of the women and men .She participate to the movement of civil right.
]]> 2017-03-10 14:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159278109 https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159278961 2017-03-10 14:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159278961 Groupe 2 : NINA SIMONE https://padlet.com/mrs_elmassoudi/3e4/wish/159279707 Nina Simone was born on february 21, 1933 in Tryon in North Carolina. She was an american singer of jazz and blues. She wrote a lot of engaged sing with the song : Mississippi Goddam. This song is for pay tribute to Medgar Evers (they had the same ideologies). She participated to the Montgomery march of Selma. She supported Martin Luther King. A lot of her song 
were boycotted by person in the south states of America. Nina was provocative so she was boycotted by radio station. Nina dieded in Carry-le-Rouet in France in 2003. Nina Simone was one of the best afro-american sing of jazz of all time.
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