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PASSIVE FORM AND SEGREGATION IN THE USA

A-

Complete the sentences in the

tense

Passive Form

and in the

right

In 1955, Rosa Parks ... (ask) to give her seat to

a white man. As she refused , she ... (arrest) in
a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Shortly after, a bus boycott
... (organize) by Martin Luther King in protest
for her arrest. At the time of rigid segregation, Black people
... (forbid) to sit at the front of buses. Thanks to
the boycott segregation ... (end) in buses.
Another significant legislative victory was in 1965. Following the
Selma-to Montgomery March , the Voting Rights Act .
.. (sign) into law on August 6, 1965 by President Lyndon
Johnson . For years Segregation ....
(condemn) by most people. Today, black people and white people
... (consider) equal. Ruby Bridges , the first
African-American girl who .. (allow) to attend
an all-white public elementary school in the American South in
1960, (receive) at the White House last year. Barack
Obama ... (elect) president twice and Martin
Luther King Day.... (declare) a Federal
holiday in the USA and . officially... (observe) in all
50 states for the first time in 2000. Dr King ..
. (remember) every year on the third Monday in January.
We have come a long way indeed !

B-

Turn the

key events

in

US History

into

Passive

Form

1867

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 grants citizenship to all native-born

Americans.

1869

Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment giving African American

men the right to vote.

1896

Louisiana "grandfather clauses" keeps former slaves and their

descendants from voting.

1940

Jim Crow laws like literacy tests and poll taxes deprive African
Americans of their voting rights.

1965

Law enforcement officers attacked more than 500 non-violent civil

rights marchers who were demanding the need for African
American voting rights.

By the end of 1965, the South registered 250,000 new black

voters.

C-

Turn the sentences

into French

a- Black people in the Southern states were not allowed to register to vote.

b- In some states, Black students were banned from attending College.

c- Colored people were deprived of their rights by the Jim Crow Laws.

d- Segregationists believed that people of different races should be kept apart.

e- Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Creative Writing

Imagine you are the Civil Rights activist , Annie Lee Cooper
.You are being interviewed by a New York Times

journalist

on the day you are allowed to register to vote for the first
time ,as a result of the Selma to Montgomery March.
him

what

who has

this special day means

experienced

to

rigid segregation

Black

Tell

woman

in Selma ,

Alabama
. Remind him of some significant strides colored

people
have made so far. You should use the Passive Form

to put
the focus on Black people and
their ill-treatment in

the
southern state . (100 words)