Passive Form

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 PASSIVE FORM AND SEGREGATION IN THE USA A-

Complete the sentences in the

Passive Form

and in the right tense.

In 1955, Rosa Parks …………………….……………….. (ask) to give her seat to a white man. As she refused , she …………………….……………….. (arrest) in a bus in

Montgomery, Alabama. Shortly after, a bus boycott …………………….………………….. (organize) by Martin Luther King in protest for her arrest. At the time of rigid

segregation, Black people ………………………...………… (forbid) to sit at the front of buses. Thanks to the boycott segregation …………………….………………..

(end) in

buses. Another significant legislative victory was in 1965. Following the Selma-to Montgomery March , the Voting Rights Act …………………….……………….. (sign) into law on August 6, 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson . For years Segregation

…………………….……….…………….. (condemn) by most people. Today, black people and white people …………………….……………….. (consider) equal. Ruby Bridges , the first

African-American girl who ………………………………..……… (allow) to attend an

all-white public elementary school in the American South in 1960,

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(receive) at the White House last year. Barack Obama …………………….……………….. (elect) president twice and Martin Luther King Day…………………….…………….………..

(declare) a Federal holiday in the USA and …….……… officially……...……… (observe) in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.

Dr King ………………………………..……….…

(remember) every year on the third Monday in January. We have come a long way indeed !

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Turn the key events in US History into Passive Form

1867

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship to all native-born Americans.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

1869

The Fifteenth Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1896

Louisiana "grandfather clauses" kept former slaves and their descendants from voting.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1940

Jim Crow laws like literacy tests and poll taxes deprived African Americans of their voting rights.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1965

Law enforcement officers attacked more than 500 non-violent civil rights marchers .

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… By the end of 1965, the South registered 250,000 new black voters.

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Turn the sentences into French

a- Black people in the Southern states were not allowed to register to vote.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………… b- In some states, Black students were banned from attending College.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………… c- Colored people were deprived of their rights by the Jim Crow Laws.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………… d- Segregationists believed that people of different races should be kept apart. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… e- Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 Creative Writing

Imagine you are the Civil Rights activist , Annie Lee Cooper .You are being interviewed by a New York Times journalist on the day you are allowed to register to vote for the first time ,as a result of the Selma to Montgomery March. Tell him what this special day means to a Black woman who has experienced rigid segregation in Selma , Alabama . Remind him of some significant strides colored people have made so far. You should use the Passive Form to put the focus on Black people and their ill-treatment in the southern state . (100 words)

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