Corrigé droits civiques : exercices d’anglais 3e

1. equality : e (l’égalité)
2. a demonstration : h (une manifestation)
3. to be arrested : a (être arrêté)
4. the right to vote : g (le droit de vote)
5. a law : b (une loi)
6. peaceful : f (pacifique)
7. to stand up for : d (défendre)
8. a protester : c (un manifestant)

1. In the South, Jim Crow laws separated Black and white people.
2. Black children went to different schools.
3. On buses, Black passengers had to sit at the back.
4. Signs saying « Whites only » were on doors and fountains.
5. The Supreme Court said facilities could be « separate but equal ».
6. Many Black citizens could not vote because of unfair tests.

1. 1954 : d (Brown v. Board of Education)
2. 1955 : c (Rosa Parks)
3. 1963 : e (March on Washington)
4. 1964 : f (Civil Rights Act)
5. 1965 : a (Voting Rights Act)
6. 1968 : b (assassinat de King)

1. Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. (verbe régulier : -ed)
2. On December 1st, 1955, she took the bus home. (take, took, taken)
3. The driver told her to stand up. (tell, told, told)
4. She didn’t move. (négation : didn’t + base verbale)
5. The police arrested her.
6. Black people walked to work for months.
7. Martin Luther King became the leader of the boycott. (become, became, become)
8. In 1963, he gave a famous speech in Washington. (give, gave, given)

1. Black passengers had to give their seats to white passengers. (obligation)
2. Black children couldn’t go to white schools. (impossibilité)
3. Many Black citizens had to pay a tax before voting.
4. Black customers couldn’t eat at some lunch counters.
5. Black people had to use separate entrances.
6. African Americans couldn’t drink from « Whites only » fountains.

1. He was nineteen. (on emploie be pour l’âge)
2. He came from Chicago.
3. He travelled by bus with his church.
4. There were about a quarter of a million people (about 250,000).
5. They were singing.
6. They started crying. / The speech gave them hope.

1. False. It took place in Greensboro, North Carolina.
2. True.
3. False. The waitress refused to serve them.
4. False. They stayed calmly until the shop closed.
5. True.
6. False. They never fought back.
7. True. In July 1960, the restaurant served Black customers.

1. Rosa Parks was arrested by the police in 1955. (passif : was + participe passé)
2. Martin Luther King fought for civil rights. (on se bat pour des droits)
3. There was a big demonstration in Washington. (faux ami)
4. Racism is a serious problem. (pas d’article devant une notion générale)
5. King gave his speech in 1963. (date passée : prétérit, pas present perfect)
6. They fought for civil rights. (on dit civil rights, jamais civic rights)

1. She refused to give up her seat.
2. The boycott lasted 381 days.
3. They fought for equality.
4. Martin Luther King believed in non-violence.
5. Black children went to separate schools.
6. The law was passed in 1964.

1. Je fais un rêve. (ou : J’ai un rêve.)
2. Un jour, cette nation se lèvera.
3. Ils ne seront pas jugés sur la couleur de leur peau.
4. Que la liberté retentisse. (ring : sonner, résonner)
5. Nous ne pouvons pas marcher seuls.

Exemple de réponse :

1. Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.
2. He was a pastor in Montgomery.
3. In 1955, he led the Montgomery bus boycott. (lead, led, led)
4. In 1963, he gave his famous « I have a dream » speech in Washington.
5. In 1964, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. (win, won, won)
6. He was killed in Memphis in 1968.