Analyse de différents textes en anglais

1 - Comes the Colored Hour 1961

Written by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, this poem wonders how the world would be different if the roles were reversed and if African American people were the majority race. Hughes spoke of Martin Luther King Jr. being the governor and wealthy black families having white mammies. This poem expresses the importance of culture and treatment of others.

2 - Black like me John Howard Griffin 1961

John Howard Griffin recounting his days in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under segregation conditions. Griffin was a native of Dallas, Texas, who had his skin temporarily darkened to pass a black man. He traveled for six weeks throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to explore life from the other side

3 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country »

John Kennedy made his inaugural speech to the presidency of the United States. He then announced the "New Frontier" program aimed at developing national education, helping the most deprived, and racial integration. He encourages his citizens to invest more in the life of the country. It is on this occasion that he pronounced this sentence

4 - I have a dream MLK 1963

I have a dream is the name given to the speech delivered on 28 August 1963 by American pastor and activist Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. More than 250,000 demonstrators call for an end to racism at United States and claims equal civil and economic rights between whites and African-Americans.

5 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1963

« Ich bin ein Berliner ! »

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is visiting Berlin, a city that for two years already has been separated by a wall that was erected by the Soviet Union. On that day, in front of several hundred thousand spectators, the American president began his speech with this sentence: « I am a Berliner! »

6 - Malcolm X, 3 avril 1964

"We are one and the same country »

Racial discrimination is still relevant in the United States. Under the growing pressure of black militants, John F. Kennedy announced the promulgation of a law to blacken black Americans from citizens like no other, "without distinction of color or race". But the president's promises are not enough to calm the anger of the radical movements. For Malcolm X, there is no question of opposing non-violent discourse to the daily violence inflicted on blacks; It will be freedom or death, voting or rifle. Speeches that have marked history, by figures of exception.

7 - Civil Rights Act de 1964

This law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion or sex. It also introduces positive discrimination: employers must ensure that hiring quotas for

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