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BLACK HISTORY, BLACK VOICES: LET'S UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT
Task 1: Put the verb in brackets in the past form, active or passive form.
Task 2 :Highlight and check the irregular verbs
After the Civil War, the American government _
(vote) the Jim Crow Laws which
(introduce) strict segregationist measures. Many laws repeatedly
(reaffirm) the absolute separation of the population. For instance, in 1896, in a judgement (Plessy VS Fergusson), it
(say - passive form) that black, who
(call - passive
form) "colored people", and the white should benefit from the same services but in separate ways.
Therefore, public services and private sector _ one
(equip - passive form) of double premises,
(reserve - passive form) to the white and the other to the black people.
You
(find) barbershops, cinemas, billiard rooms, pubs, buses, schools for white &
colored people. In some states, black people _
(can /not) sit in the same cinemas as the
white. If they
(can), they
(have to) sit on special seats or in special areas.
The former
(be) often less comfortable and the latter
(be) often not
convenient to watch a movie
In Alabama, where buses there
(mean - passive form) for both colored and white people, when
(be) no seat available, a colored person _
(have to) give it to a white
person. On Dec. 1st 1955, Rosa Parks
(refuse). She
(arrest - passive form)
by the police and then
(fine - passive form) a 15$ ticket.
A young Baptist pastor, Martin Luther King Jr., _
_ (lead) a movement of civil
disobedience and
(manage) to have all colored people boycott buses. The buses
(take not- passive form) by black people and white sympathisers. It
(last) for 382 days. In 1956, the supreme court
_ (declare) segregationist laws in
buses unconstitutional. It
(be) the beginning of the struggle for justice. It
(lead -
passive form) by MLK and the NAACP - the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People. They
(protest) peacefully. They
(march) from cities to cities. Many
white people
(refuse) to let this happen and some
(react) violently.