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SLAVERY AREA

- 1620: Arrival of the first settlers in North America.

         First slaves imported from Africa

             Beginning of the slave trade

- 1774: US Declaration of Independence, writing og the US constitution on the basis of liberty

- 1808: Official ending of the importation of slaves in Africa

- 1861: Slave states leave the union: beginning of the Civil War.

-1865: Victory of the Free states,

                                                          Abolition of slavery

                                                                                            Ending of the Cicil War

SEGREGATION ERA

- 1954: Decision of the US Supreme court against segregation

-1955: Rosa Parks incident, Civil Rights movement starts

- 1963: Martin Luther King's speech: I have a Dream

- 1964: Civil Rights act, prohibiting racial discrimination

-1965: Malcom X and the Black Muslims

DISCRIMINATION CONTINUES

- 2005: still more problems...

link: Listen and complete

How many words did you find? 

Speech delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., on August 28th, 1963.

I say to you today, my ______________, so even though we face the ______________________ of today and tomorrow, I still have a ____________. It's a dream deeply rooted in the ________________ .

I have a _______________ that one day this _______________ will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all _____________ are created equal."

I have a _____________ that one day on the red hills of ________________ the sons of former ______________ and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at he ____________________ of brotherhood.

I have a ____________ that one day even the state of _________________ , a state sweltering with the heat of _______________________, sweltering with the heat of ____________________________, will be transformed into an oasis of _______________________________ and _______________________ .

I have a ________________________ that my four little children will one day live in a __________________ where they will not be judged by the _______________ of their ___________ but by the content of their ______________. I have a dream today.

I have a ____________ that one day, down in _______________, with its vicious _____________, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day, right there in Alabama, little ____________ and ______________ will be able to join hands with little ______________ and ______________ and walk together as ________________ and ____________. I have a dream today.

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