Martin Luther King en anglais

« This extract spoke about forging ahead.

He asked the rhetoric question "When will you be satified ?", and replied that they will be satisfied once they obtain the same rights than the white people. -> Answer the following questions; they will help you with your presentation : 1.

A) So why was it necessary for King to say: "We cannot turn back" ? In this extract, when King said: "we cannot turn back", he was hoping that the situation of black people could only improve.

That one day, the whites as the blacks will be equal and will have the same rights.

For him, this fight should never stop, it is necessary to keep fighting and to move forward in order to make things change and consequently not to go back.

B) "Our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities": What happened to black Americans in their everyday life ? What do you think of that ? Do you think it was fair ? The black people didn't have the right to go in buses and trains; they didn't have access to services and public places such as hotels either.

We think that it should have never been like that.

Whether you are white, black, a man or a woman ; we all deserve to have the same rights.

We also think that this situation was completely unfair.

Thus, why would the skin colour of whit people give them the right to be superior to black people ? C) Imagine you were in the shoes of black person at the time.

How did people probably feel when they were faced with that difficulty ? Let us imagine that we are in a black person's shoes, how would we feel ? These people had to feel humbled.

Because of how they were treated, they were disgusted, and felt anger mixed up with sadness. D) Which unfair law did King refer to in this passage ? In this passage, the discriminatory law referenced by King was Jim Crow's law: these laws distinguished citizens according to their "racial" affiliation and while admitting their equality of right they imposed a racial segregation in all the places and the public services. -> Conclusion : From this extract, we find the idea of progress in the fact that now all the people either black or white should be able to do the same things.

The social progress was made by giving the same rights to all the people independently of their skin colour.. »