UNIT 2 LESSON 3

WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS AFTER SLAVERY ?

1- Listen and fill in the blanks :

“In the past, black people and …….. ………………. ………………….. ……………. …………………….”
(this system was called …………………..)

2- When and where did this system take place?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3- List all the things that were separated between the Whites and the Blacks :
- ……...................
- ………………..
- …………………
- ………………….

4- Where was this system the law? (Tick the right answer)

In the South In the North of the USA.

5- Listen again and say what the Blacks were not allowed to do or had to do (5 things)
- …………………………………………………………………………
- ………………………………………………………………………….
- ……………………………………………………………………………
- …………………………………………………………………………….
- …………………………………………………………………………….

6- Let’s recap’!

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A SAMPLING OF THE JIM CROW LAWS

1- Read the following document

From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through “Jim Crow”
laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). Laws were different from one state to the other.
Nurses : No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in
hospitals, either public or private, in which negro are placed. (State of Alabama)
Prisons: The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and
sleeping from the negro convicts. (State of Mississippi).
Barbers: No coloured barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls. (State of Georgia)
Textbooks: Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and coloured schools, but shall continue
to be used by the race first using them. (State of North Carolina)

2- Rephrase the 4 former laws by using a structure expression interdiction, obligation…..

Nurses …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Rephrase the following sentences about segregation using HAD TO or WEREN’T
ALLOWED TO + BV ( Reformule les phrases suivantes en utilisant HAD TO ou WEREN’T
ALLOWED TO)

Rephrase the following sentences about segregation using HAD TO or WEREN’T

ALLOWED TO + BV ( Reformule les phrases suivantes en utilisant HAD TO ou WEREN’T
ALLOWED TO)

Rephrase the following sentences about segregation using HAD TO or WEREN’T

ALLOWED TO + BV ( Reformule les phrases suivantes en utilisant HAD TO ou WEREN’T
ALLOWED TO)
 7- Let’s recap’!
…………………….. years ago, …………………………. was the law especially in the ………
of the USA. Black people and white people were …………………….. : Black people
…………. sit in the back of buses while white people sat in the …………….
Black children ………………………. use white bathrooms and gas stations. Even in
old age, ……………… separated senior citizens : indeed, an old black man and
an old white man ……………………………….play checkers together in the park.