Oral anglais bac

The notion that I’m going to present you is the notion of Progress. The notion of progress is the idea that the world can be better in terms of science, technology, rights and quality of life. Progress implies changes in the way of life, tradition and vision of world. We studied the notion of progress in the black rights field. How did has the condition of black americans evolve ? So I'm going to talk about slavery and its abolition and subsequent racial segregation.

First, slavery begins with the arrival of the first settlers in America in the seventeenth century. These colonists need work to work in the fields of cotton and canes and to serve workers but also Africans. However, the beginnings of British common law, also a form of racism develop, is the beginning of slavery of blacks. In 1700, slavery became a reality with black codes, depriving blacks of their rights. Triangular trade was an important component of the condition of blacks who at that time were being shipped as merchandise to America in terrible conditions. Blacks were treat by whites as an inferior race that was destined to be slave. This is particularly the case as we saw in progress with the photos and the study of the life of Baaba Djibo. Baaba Djibo was a black child living in a small village. He was captured by a group of white prisoners who sold him to slave traders. He was bought as a simple animal and worked for his "master" Jack Dawson. However, he managed to escape from the plantation where he worked and obtained a status of slavery freeing what was relatively rare. On these documents we see how black people are treated by whites. Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that allows any enslaved person to be released is the first step in the evolution of the condition of the Americans. This is a return of some rights. There remains a permanent racism in American society, blacks still do not have the same rights as whites and remain "inferior" to them, they must be separated from whites this is what is called segregation.

Following the abolition of slavery, racism and social hierarchy remains its was called segregation. There is a distinction in public places and services between blacks and whites. They are thus separated in particular in toilets, cinema and bus. Specific places are reserved for them with hygiene or materials of lesser quality. It follows then discontent among some blacks who start to no longer obey the laws imposed including Rosa Parks who by his courage and his will sit on places reserved for whites in a bus of the city and refused to give way his place to a white. This is the beginning of a massive boycott and protest movement, including the famous Martin Luther King. According to the current Martin Luther King biography, it was he who organized the boycott of the transport systems in 1956. He also founded in his continued struggle for the rights of blacks the southern Christian leadership in 1957 and therefore became the leader of civil rights. The document I have also chosen is Martin Luther King's speech delivered on August 28, 1963, "I have a dream," in which King calls for the equality of all citizens whether black or white, and asks that country. to become an oasis of freedom and justice and wants people not to be judged on their skin color but on their person. This speech will have an impact on the national opinion and the Civil Rights Acts are voted by the Congress in 1964 allowing all forms of racism or discrimination to be illegal. He was not the only one to fight for his rights as seen with the biographical document of Malcolm X who denounced the exploitation of blacks and the sudden violence by the whites.

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