1. SEGREGATION IN THE USA

2. Definition
Segregation: separation of different racial
group in daily life. Laws aproved the
segregation during long time.
all is divided inequally between Black and
White people: job , hobby, transport, …

3.  Restaurant, theatre,
bar, bus … were
reserved to one kind
of people : white or
colored people

4. Labour market divided in two part
White have « better » job than black
people
Black people have hard job

5.  Violence on colored
people was « legal »
 Lynching was current
 White people wasn’t
arrested if they hurt
black people.

6. I. FUNDAMENTAL DATES
 On june the 7th of 1892: racial
segregation in USA

7.  On may the 17th of 1954: The USA
convict racial segregation at school
 On december the 1st of 1955: Rosa
Parks refuse to give up his place

8. On January the 11th of 1957: Martin
Luther King was on the head of the
christian conference
 On april the 15th of 1960: Creation of the
students’ comittee of coordination

9.  On april the 12th of 1963: Martin Luther
King arrested during actions of
Birmingham

10.  On april the 4th of 1968: Martin Luther
King was killed

11.  On October the 17th of 1968: the Black
Panters’fist in Olympics

12. II. RODNEY KING

13. ARREST

14. AFTER THE ARREST

15. RIOTS

16. MALCOLM X

17. The segregation is finished but several
inequalities are still here.
Nowadays Black people are not only to be
discriminated : all people can be
concerned
The segregation had disappear legally but
today some autorities use their right to
practice something similar