Make groups to watch these parts of the movie and

The chosen movie is this:
Any idea of
the reason
why this
movie was
chosen to
help in this
subject?
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States
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)
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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I have a dream that one day,
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of
down in Alabama, with its
Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the
vicious racists, one day right
sons of former slave owners will be able to
there in Alabama little black
sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
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
domination
Movement.
during
and
resistance
the
1960s
to
Civil
white
Rights
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.
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
Glory is destined!
Every day women and men become legends.
Sins that go against our skin become blessings.
Resistence is us!!!
That's why Rosa sat on the bus
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 [email protected] até no prazo
de uma semana, ou seja, em nossa próxima aula.
 Esta atividade somará pontos na “Avaliação processual”