Segregationist laws in America by Serveau

2017-03-23 11:01:33 UTC

The history of the ku klux klan

2017-03-23 11:19:07 UTC

Alex Lathuille , Muzaffer Yilmaz 4°1

The Ku Klux Klan was created in 1865 and 1866 in Tennessee (a segregationist state).

It was a supremacist, racist, segregationist organization .

The segregationist laws separated black people from white people .

The Ku Klux Klan terrorized the Afro-American:

-They wore a ghost costume.

-They tortured and killed the black people .

-The KKK has been allowed the 20 April 1871.

They reformed in 1915 .

But the Ku Klux Klan was infiltrated by Ron Stallworth.
He is an Afro-American police officer .

The Ku Klux Klan does not exist anymore .

http://www.une-autre-histoire.org/ron-stallworth2/

This is the photo of Ron Stallworth:

Strange fruit

2017-03-23 11:20:13 UTC

(kacedanLila, wickyMylène, monotLéa, yalcinMerve, sobtiLina)
Strange Fruit (Fruit Etrange )
lien chanson: http://viewpure.com/h4ZyuULy9zs?start=0&end=0

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Les arbres du Sud portent un fruit étrange
Blood on the leaves and blood on the root
Du sang sur leurs feuilles et du sang sur leurs racines
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Des corps noirs qui se balancent dans la brise du Sud
Strange fruit hanging from poplar trees
Un fruit étrange suspendu aux peupliers
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
Scène pastorale du vaillant Sud
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Les yeux révulsés et la bouche déformée
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Le parfum des magnolias doux et printannier
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Puis l'odeur soudaine de la chair qui brûle
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
Voici un fruit que les corbeaux picorent
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
Que la pluie fait pousser, que le vent assèche
For the sun to ripe, to the tree to drop
Que le soleil fait mûrir, que l'arbre fait tomber
Here is a strange and bitter crop !
Voici une bien étrange et amère récolte !
Source :https://www.lacoccinelle.net/243191.html

Strange fruit is a song composed by Abel Meerpol (1930) and sung by Billie Holiday (1939).

This song denounces the lynching and the hanging of the black people.
The song isn't explicit at the start, because the lyrics talk about fruits but progressively we understand:

"Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze:Des corps noirs qui se balancent dans la brise du Sud" so strange fruits are black humans.

Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were 16 years old. They were wrongly accused a murder of a white factory worker and a rape of his girlfriend.

They were also accused of robbed the factory.

They were lynching and hanging. When they were dead, the girl admitted that she lied.
lien photo: http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lynching-thomas-shipp-abram-smith-1930/

Claudette Colvin

2017-04-13 09:48:05 UTC

Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin was a black American woman.On the 2^nd of March 1955, she was a 15 years old pupil in high school, she took the bus to go back home. She sat on the bus, four white men got into the bus so the driver asked her to stand up (in accordance with segregation laws), she ignored him and she didn't move. Two police officers

asked her to leave and arrested her.

That was 8 months before Rosa Parks'arrestation. Claudette was so brave.

Claudette was less known than Rosa Parks so miss Colvin was younger and was arrested well before.

Today the name of Rosa Parks is associated with rebellion for equality and not the name of Claudette Colvin.

The assocation national (NAACP) promoted her fight has the tribut to her.

She received a lot of letters of support. But when the association discoved that she had a strong character and she had a baby with a married men, her history went away.

They chose Rosa Parks, six months after.

Today she broke the silence and move out of the shadow into the limelight that her mother recommended to keep.

Girardet Emma
Husejnovic Erna 4*1 Mandela
Navellou Marie

source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin

Mohamed Ali

2017-04-13 09:51:04 UTC

zayd khayer kevin koyuncu
His real name was Cassius Marcellus Clay but he converted to Islam and he changed his
name as Muhammed Ali.He was born on 17 January 1942: Louisville, Kentucky United States and he died on 3rd of June 2016 in Scotsdalle, Arizona United States .

The young boy was so gifted for boxing that he was selected to represent the United States at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , when he won this competition. He was only 18 ,his opponent Zbigniew Pietrzykowski hit him 440 times

It was for him a revenge  when he was small he couldn't lives in some places of his district because    he was black .lien de l' image : paris sport.fr

Some people considered him like a slave so

lien de l image : pinterest

http://www.eurosport.fr/boxe/mohamed-ali-et-les-droits-civiques-l-autre-combat_sto5635297/story.shtml

Abel Meerpol and Billie Holiday, the singer of "strange fruit"

2017-04-13 09:57:24 UTC

(kacedanLila, wickyMylène, monotLéa, yalcinMerve, sobtiLina)
In 7 march 1939 in New York a highschool teacher, Abel Meerpol has composed a poem entitled "strange fruit". She gave it at Billie Holiday, one of his pupil. She puts it to music and sung it.

She also wanted to sung it because her father had died because of black discrimination. he had a serious illnes, but the white hospitals didn't accepted to cure him, because he was black.
lien photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday

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