The chosen movie is this:

Selma is a 2014 American historical drama film. It is

based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights

marches led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any idea of

the reason

why this

movie was

chosen to

help in this

subject?

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an

ethnic group of Americans (citizens or residents of the United States) with total or

partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. The term may also be

used to include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans.

Black and African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in

the United States (after White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States

Can you think about times when that descriptions happened in our Brazilian society?

And other societies?

What exactly happened to the black American people in the segregation times?

Do you know what political repression is?

Political repression is the persecution of an individual or group within society for political reasons,

particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life

of a society thereby reducing their standing among their fellow citizens.

Many times the State shows violent ways to repress a part of the population.

The Law itself is violent against a certain part of the population.

The lack of rights and the violence can be represented not only by the State, but also by groups that

represent the State. Have you ever thought about that?

The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by

the revolution: whether the United States was to be a

dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible

nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this

nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an

equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest

slaveholding country in the world.

The segregation has always existed, even after the emancipation of the slaves

during the American Civil War.

The Civil War is the central event in America's historical consciousness. While the

Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865

determined what kind of nation it would be.

Segregation is the separation of humans

into ethnic or racial groups in daily life. It

may apply to activities such as eating in a

restaurant, drinking from a water

fountain, using a public toilet, attending

school, going to the movies, riding on a

bus, or in the rental or purchase of a

home.

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws

enforcing racial segregation in the

Southern United States.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 –

April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist

minister, activist, humanitarian, and

leader in the African-American Civil

Rights Movement. He is best known for

his role in the advancement of civil rights

using nonviolent civil disobedience

based on his Christian beliefs.

King also helped to organize the 1963

March on Washington, where he

delivered his famous "I Have a Dream"

speech. There, he established his

reputation as one of the greatest orators

in American history.

On October 14, 1964, King received the

Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial

inequality through nonviolence. In 1965,

he helped to organize the Selma to

Montgomery marches

In 1968, King was planning a

national occupation of

Washington, D.C., to be called the

Poor People's Campaign, when he

was assassinated on April 4 in

Memphis, Tennessee.

(…)

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of

Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the

sons of former slave owners will be able to

sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

(…)

I have a dream that one day,

down in Alabama, with its

vicious racists, one day right

there in Alabama little black

boys and black girls will be

able to join hands with little

white boys and white girls as

sisters and brothers.

Make groups to watch these parts of the movie and then answer to the

questions.

1. Describe the scene you have just seen.

2. Was it shocking to you? Why?

3.What was the woman trying to do?

4. Did she succeed? Why?...

5. Watching these two scenes, can you make a relation of the reason why

having rights to vote was so important to black people?

6. This movie is set in 1965. Do you know who was the presidente of the USA at that

time?

Search... Use the words “President of the United States + Selma”

Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president of

the U.S. in 1960 and became the 36th president

in 1963, following the assassination of President

John F. Kennedy.

7. Do you know for what reason the presidente preferes Martin to Malcolm X?

Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a

courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest

terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of violence. He has been

called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. In February 1965, he

was assassinated.

8. Do you know what are the “systematic intimidation and fear”mentioned by Martin

Luther King Jr that avoided American black people from voting?...

Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and

became a vehicle that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy,

white nationalism, anti-immigration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apfzaf1d25g

Alexander Miles, elevador;

Charles Drew, preservação estocagem de sangue, implantou o primeiro

banco de sangue do mundo;

Elbert R. Robinson, bonde elétrico;

Dr. Ernest E. Just, fertilização e a estrutura celular do ovo, mundo a

primeira visão da arquitetura humana ao explicar como trabalham as

células;

Frederick Jones, ar condicionado;

George Carver - Como botânico, descobriu mais de cem produtos derivados

do amendoim: cosméticos, tinturas, plástico, gasolina e nitroglicerina.

Garret A. Morgan, semáforo e primeira máscara contra gases;

Granville T.Woods, transmissor de telefone

John Standard, geladeira;

Lee Burridge, máquina de datilografia;

Lewis Howard Latimer, filamento da lâmpada elétrica;

Lloyd Quarteman, primeiro reator nuclear na década de 1930;

Dra. Patricia E. Bath, dispositivo laser para cirurgia de cataratas;

Dr. Philip Emeagwali, computador mais rápido do mundo, 3,1 bilhões de cálculos por segundo.

Estudou o aquecimento global, as condições do tempo e determinou como o petróleo flui sob a terra;

Percy L. Julian, o desenvolvimento do tratamento do mal de Alzheimer e do glaucoma;

Raphael E. Armattoe, encontrou a cura para a doença do verme da água da Guiné .

Richard Spikes, inventou a mudança automática de marchas;

W. A. Lovette, prensa de impressão avançada;

Vivien Thomas – Primeira cirurgia de coração;

William Hinton, primeiro manual médico sobre a sífilis.

Neil Degrasse Tyson – considerado como um dos maiores nomes da física na atualidade. Especialista em

astrofísica e cosmologia física, discípulo de Carl Sagan.

First cardiac surgery

He is considered one of the most

known names in Physics field and

an expert on astrophysics and

cosmology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHuzJgROsc

Considered the biggest olympic and professional

boxer, widely regarded as one of the most

significant and celebrated sports figures of the

20th century. He gave a message of racial pride for

African Americans and resistance to white

domination during the 1960s Civil Rights

Movement.

Selma had four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture –

Drama, Best Director, Best Picture and Best Actor, and won for Best Original Song. The

singer of this song, the rapper and actor Common is present in the movie as Bevel.

It was performed by John Legend and Common.

Glory is destined!

Resistence is us!!!

Every day women and men become legends.

Sins that go against our skin become blessings.

That's why Rosa sat on the bus

One day when the glory comes

It will be ours, it will be ours

One day when the war is won

We will be sure, we will be sure

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to

surrender her bus seat to a white

passenger, spurring the Montgomery

boycott and other efforts to end

segregation.

9.What is your opinion about this activity?

10. Produce a text explaining what was the period of segregation in the

United States, how the Stated tried to repress the fighting of black

people in that country and what lesson you learned from that.

Todas as nove respostas mais o texto (com pelo menos 5 linhas) devem

ser enviados para o e-mail fabianamariabap@gmail.com até no prazo

de uma semana, ou seja, em nossa próxima aula.

Esta atividade somará pontos na “Avaliação processual”