+ Listening comprehension
The 60s saw the emergence of – the counter-culture - the civil rights movement – sit-ins – demonstrators – people taking to the streets - to abolish the Jim Crow laws (segregation) –– radicalized –– stood up for –to bring people’s attention to – popped up – a nation-wide protest movement –to raise awareness of segregation and …- to speak out –President Johnson : the Civil Rights Act (1964)
Martin Luther King
The Black panthers
The civil rights struggle
The picture was taken … The snapshot shows … Luthr King delivered his speech in front of the … on August 28th 1963. A crowd of mostly black …. Set out to the … Memorical in order to … The civil rights demonstrators aimed to …
On the left-hand side, we can see … / on the right-hand side
In the foreground … / In the background
The speech can be divided into 3 parts : in the first part, he focuses on … the second part highlights … in the third part of his speech, he points up …
3 Analaysis of the speech
“all men are created equal” quotes the Declaration of Independence. His aim is to …
His speech is a political protest against oppression. The “red hill of Georgia” refer to the dark years of slavery. http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
He pays tribute to the history of blacks, he portrays them both as heros and victism when he argues that …
He mentions Mississipi, Tenessee, Georgia (slave states before the end of the Civil War 1865) http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/676
He exposes the injustice of segregation laws when he argues that “they will not be judged by the color of their skin” http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm
He reminds his audience that the land of the free was founded by the Pilgrim fathers
Luther King believed in non-violence and brotherhood : he advocated nonj-violent means to achieve … Quote the text to justify
4 Explain what makes the speech powerful and uplifting
He uses rhetorical devices : give examples of repetitions, rhythm, parallel constructions, metaphorical language, bombastic style, tone of voice, oppositions = contrasts, hyperbolic, to get his message across, he hammers out some words such as … - strong political statements – to stir up enthusiasm – he sounds genuine when he says … - to dramatize – to idealize – the word implies … - conjures up images of … - emphatic adjectives – he stood up for – the idea is supported by rhetorical effects – emphatic verbs – emphatic adjectives
Is the speech aimed at black Americans only or to the country as a whole ?
Laura O.B: I have a dream
ResponderEliminarThe 60's saw the emergence of a racial segregation between black and whith people, a counter-culture. The sit-in mouvement began in Chicago by African American students protesting segregation at lunch counters in city stores. The mouvement quickly spread throughout north Carolina to south Carolina...
The black students were frequently joined by white students and other sympathizes.
Juanca
ResponderEliminarFor centuries, the principles upon which America was founded did not apply to Africans Americans. For 300 years Africans were kidnapped or shipped to Americans in boats to be sold or work like cattle. After Civil War the black from North America were oficially free from slaveny. But well into the 20th century most black people were still not free. America was a racially and economically segregate society.
The year was 1955 King's first job as a minister was at the Dexter Avenue Bptist Church. Black bus riders who paid the same were required by law to give up their seats to white riders and move to black of the bus as white bordered. When all seats had been taken away by whites, the black riders understand. When a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, she was arrested.
I have a dream
ResponderEliminar2- The picture was taken in a MArtin Luther King's public speech delivered on Augist 28, 1968, in wich he called for racial equality and and the end of the discrimination. The snapshot shwos Martin Luther King, an American clergyan, activist and prominent leader in the African American Civil Right movement. He is in a balcony in front of many of many other people concerned with the equality in the Usa. It's a crowd of mostly black people fighting in an emblematic
Laura OB:
ResponderEliminarFor centuries, the principles upon which America was founded did not apply to Africans Americans. For 300 years Africans were kidnapped or shipped to Americans in boats to be sold or work like cattle. After Civil War the black from North America were oficially free from slaveny. But well into the 20th century most black people were still not free. America was a racially and economically segregate society.
The year was 1955 King's first job as a minister was at the Dexter Avenue Bptist Church. Black bus riders who paid the same were required by law to give up their seats to white riders and move to black of the bus as white bordered. When all seats had been taken away by whites, the black riders understand. When a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, she was arrested.
3 Analysis of the speech. Beatriz Román.
ResponderEliminar1)
In 1950's America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color blacks, Hispanics, Asians were discriminated against in many ways, almost in public places. The 1950's were a turbulent time in America, when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions. That's why Marting Luther King delivered his speech in front of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln was the 16th Us President, he signed in 1863 he signed the Emancipation Proclamation which abolished slavery, saying that “ all men are equal”.
One century later, in 1963, M.L. King delivered his speech with the same aim, to abolish discrimination against black people and called to equality.
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Laura
ResponderEliminarMartin Luther King was a black American baptist minister, he was an advocate of non violence and the leader of the civil rights movement. He was inspired by Gandhi. He began a non-violent protest: the bus boycott. In 1955 after rosa parks detention, black citizens were outraged and they started the boycott.
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Laura(all the commentary)
ResponderEliminarThe year was 1955 King's first job as a minister was at the Dexter Avenue Bptist Church. Black bus riders who paid the same were required by law to give up their seats to white riders and move to black of the bus as white bordered. When all seats had been taken away by whites, the black riders understand. When a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, she was arrested.
The Black Panters were formed in California in 1966 and they played an important part in the civil rights movement. They believed that Martin LK’movement would have no effect at least long-term.
laura
ResponderEliminar2-description of the picture
The picture was taken during a Martin Luther King speech on august 28th 1963 in Washington. He delivered his speech in front of the Linkon Memorial after a long and exhausting protest march. The civil rights demonstrators aimed to racial equality and an end of discrimination.
On the left-hand side we can see a crowd of over 200.000 peolpe, mostly black. And in the right-hand side we can see Martin LK, one of the most important black leaders of his era, greeting his followers.
The speech can be divided in 3 parts: in the fisrt, he focuses on an attempt to convice the public and persuade them. Secondly, we visualise the main goals using repetitions and metaphors. Finaly, he conclude his speech with his thesis.
3-analaysis of the speech
‘all men are created equal’ it’s a key excerpts of his speech, and quotes the declaration of independence of united states. His aim is to convince the spectators and move them to feel the democracy of the speech. Because there are no differences by race or color. There is only one, the human.
His speech is a political protest against oppression. The ‘red hill of Georgia’ refer to the dark years of slavery. ‘red’ hints at blood, impliying pain, struggle and injustice of black people in Georgia, symbol of the South. He says in reference to the abolition of slavery articulated in the emancipation proclamation’the end of their captivity’.
He mentions Missisipi and other states because they were occupated by slavers before the end of the civil war in 1865. He exposes the injudice of segregation laws when he argues that ‘’they will no t bbe judged’’ by the color of their skin. He wants to pass the message of the prejudice of white peolpe to black people. He advocated non-violent means to achieve ‘our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood’.
laura
ResponderEliminar4-speech powerful and uplifting
More than 40 years ago, in August 1963, Martin Luther King electrified America with his momentous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, dramatically delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
His soaring rhetoric demanding racial justice and an integrated society became a mantra for the black community and is as familiar to subsequent generations of Americans as the US Declaration of Independence. His words proved to be a touchstone for understanding the social and political upheaval of the time and gave the nation a vocabulary to express what was happening.
The key message in the speech is that all people are created equal and, although not the case in America at the time, King felt it must be the case for the future. He argued passionately and powerfully. Three factors added to the impact of the speech:
The remarkable emotion of King’s delivery in terms of both voice and body
The site at which it was delivered – on the steps of the memorial to the President who defeated southern states over the issue of slavery
The mood of the day, a sense of perpetuated slavery among black people and the gradual realisation of a sense of guilt among white people
First, there is the remarkable emotion in King's voice and body as he made the speech.
Secondly was the context, in the heart of capital city, on the steps to the memorial of the President who defeated the Southern states over the issue of slavery.
Thirdly, the zeitgeist of the day, the feeling and flavor of perpetuated slavery of black people in the continued racial bias, their rising up against this and the gradual realization of guilt in white people who stood by and did nothing. It was King's words and actions that prodded Kennedy into taking up the banner.
What was missed by some, was that King's address had a very strong message for white people, possibly as primary targets. Whilst he hinted at revolution, his words were mostly about peace, thus offering a vision into which everyone could buy.