Black Lives Matter Flashcards
scandale
uproar/outraged
réussir
succeed in/achieve
incroyable
outstanding
1865
End of the civil war+abolition of slavery
1870
The Jim Crow Laws that introduced the “Separate but equal rights” doctrine. The beginning of segregation which led white supremacists to found the KKK.
1955
African-American started to demand equal and fairer rights after Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus.
2 figures of the Civil Rights movement
Martin Luther King : pacifists marches
Malcolm X : leader of the Black Panthers (violent actions)
soulful
Très expressif
soulmate
âme soeur
defiance
attitude de défi
psyche
mental structure
embedded
ancré
doubt
doute
ethnicities
origine ethnique
broader
larger
figure out
find a solution
1964-1965
Civil Rights Acts, that ended the segregation but find ways to keep African-American apart form the withe : redlining.
Redlining
Banks would refuse loans on the basis of security in the suburbs. So African-americans could not get a loan and could only afford to live in underdevelopped areas.
Profiling
psychological analisys of criminals : consider that certain persons are c