CIVIL RIGHTS VOCABULARY
How do you say "manifestation" in English?
Demonstration
What president abolished slavery in 1865?
Abraham Lincoln
What is "to roar" in French?
Rugir
What is the Cotton Club?
A club in Harlem, NYC, where black artists performed for rich white people.
Where does it start and end?
It starts in Chicago, Illinois
It ends in Los Angeles, California.
Militant in English?
Activist
Give me three examples of Jim Crow Laws.
1. Blacks couldn't go to White people's schools.
2. Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus
3. Blacks weren't allowed to sit in the front of the bus.
What is "making alcohol illegally"?
Where could you drink alcohol?
Bootlegging
Speakeasy
What is the Harlem renaissance?
It's the booming African American art: litterature, music and painting.
What terrible economic/climatic event made it very popular?
The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Discours in English?
Speech
Three things about Ruby Bridges.
She was from Mississippi
She was the first black girl to go to a white school in 1960
Four marshals escorted her to school
Se produire sur scène
Perform
Describe a flapper.
A flapper has short hair, a bobcut.
She wears jewelry (bracelets, necklaces, rings and boraches) and make-up (blush, lipstick and eye-liner)
She wears loose straight dresses that go below her knees.
She couls ride bikes, drive, drink alcohol, dance and smoke.
She could also vote.
What famous book by John Steinbeck tells the terrible story of the Joad family?
Grapes of Wrath
Soulèvement in English?
Riot
Three things about Rosa Parks
She wouldn't give her seat to a white person
She was from Montgomery, Alabama
She triggered the bus boycott for 1 year (1955-56)
Modification de la constitution américaine?
Amendment.
Give me 6 inventions from this time.
Combustion automobile
radio, jukebox, records.
Home appliances: toasters, washing machines, electric stove.oven, toasters, vacuum cleaners.
What book by Jack Kerouac made Route 66 so iconic and a symbol of freedom?
On the Road
Rassemblements in English?
Rallies
Four things about Martin Luther King, Jr
He was a pastor and an activist
He gave the speech 'I have a dream'
He organized the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama
Scène, lieu de spectacle?
Venue
Name 6 celebrities from this time.
Al Capone, Eliott Ness
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
Charlie Chaplin, Louise Brooks, Josephine Baker.
Name the 8 states Route 66 goes through.
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arisona and California.