Vocabulary
2).Boycott: To join together in preventing dealings with a company or business state, as a means of protest (Spanish definition on page 51 of your book, written like this: (BOICOT).
1).Thenceforward: From that time or place on. Made up of two words: Then and forward.
3).Priest: A member of the clergy of the order next below that of bishop.
4).Disposed: Inclined, willing, or motivated to do something.
5).Shot down: It's a word made up of two secondary words: shot (of a bullet) and down (after a verb, shot in this case, finish with someone yet in competition or in other action).
Vocabulary
6).Slavery: The keeping of slaves as a practice (slave means: one who is property of another and who must obey him or her).
7).Nowadays: At this time; these days. It's a word made up of two secondary words: Now and days.
8).Achieve: To gain as by hard work or effort.
9).Murder: The unlawful killing of a person.
10).Deserve: Have a claim of a reward because of actions, qualities, or circumstances.
Discrimination of afroamerican
Most significant people and what they did for afroamerican
In general the biggest steps that people made to achieve that afroamericans get the same rights as the rest of people happened in the U.S.A
The were a lot of men that made this possible, the most important between them were: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King
( Shown in the next slides)
FACT: Nowadays there is an organisation that is working to get no more racism in the U.S.A
NAACP:National Association for the Advancement of colored people
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The first important man is Abraham Lincoln, who was president of the U.S.A since the 4th of March of 1861, until the 15th of April of 1865.
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln started a campaign to reach the non-slavery and equality of afroamerican.
He ordered: "As a fit and necessary military measure, on January 1, 1863, all persons specially afroamerican, held as slaves in the Confederate States will thenceforward, and forever, be free. In other case, people keeping slaves will be considered enemies of the U.S.A"
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was the last great defender of the rights of the afroamericans.
He was a priest, but when he could speak to all the United States he organized big marches at national level in which dark and pale skinned people fought for the equality of both
His marches or boycotts were never violent.
In 1965 he received the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1968 Martin Luther King was shot down by a racist. However when Martin Luther King decided to help the afroamerican he assumed the high possibility of being murdered, because he always said:
"Those who are not disposed to die for something don't deserve to live"
Thanks for your attention
by Ivan bendezú torres
Discrimination of Afroamericans
By ivanbendezutorres
Discrimination of Afroamericans
A slideshow about discrimination of afroamericans in the U.S.A. by Iván Luis Bendezú Torres
