FIGHTERS FOR

CIVIC RIGHTS

Travaux des 3èmes

2 et 3ème 3

Gandhi :

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a politician and spiritual

Indian man ; he was born on october 2nd 1869 in India

(Porbandar) ; he was married at fourteen with Kashturbai.

He was polytheistic.

After a slaughter he decided to focus his attention for

independence of India. Gandhi criticized the actions of the

United Kingdom and the violents rataluation. He had already

done hunger strike to show his message, and convince people

to stop violence.

National Association for the Advencement of Colored

People

NAACP,National Association for the Advencement of

Colored People,was created in 1909 and Benjamin

Jealous is the youngest president in 2007.The head office

is in Baltimore in USA.The aim is not lucrative.It defends

civic rights.It ensure the educational,social and economic

rights of people and It eliminate discrimination.In 1905;It

fights for the right to vote for black people.It fought

against the segregation.

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NELSON Mandela

Nelson Mandela was born in south Africa, Meezo in 1918, he lived

in the South Africa, he is student in right and rejoin the ANC.

Nelson Mandela was lawer, he organised campagning to

disobedience civil against the Apartheid in 1952. The Apartheid

was laws of segregation that separed the white people and the

black people.He is shut sour island prison to Robben Island.

He is libered in 1990 and abolished the Aparthied. He was

president the 9 may in 1994.

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Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee in Alabama in 4 February 1913. In 1932 she

married with Raymond Parks. A barber activist for the cause of civil rights. Rosa

Parks was a seamstress she lived in Montgomery. When she was a child the

kukluxklan has burn her school.

In December 1955 during the segregation on Montgomery. Rosa Parks refused to

give her seat to a white person and site at the back of the bus. She was arrested and

went to prison.

E.D. Nixon paid the fine and the worship minister organized a association MIA

(Movement of the progress for Montgomery) and the boss is Martin Lutter king.

Martin Lutter king asked black people to boycott buses this in order to be not violent

“love your enemy bless those who curse you and pray for those who persecute you “

The society of the autobuses didn’t have money. In 1963 the civil right act abolished

Segregation.In 1999 Bill Clinton gave the legal of US congress to Rosa Parks this is

the biggest distinction of America.

Malcom X Malcom K Little was born on 19 may 1925 in Omaha. He was American and lived in

in the U.S.A he changed his name of family for X. He lived at the period of

segregation Malcom was converted on Muslim and his nickname was El Hadji

Malick El Shabbazz. Head of a mosque when he was released from prison, Malcom

was a courageous advocate Afro-American who charged the United States for its

crime and racial segregation to the Blacks Community.

Childhood; Malcom little was the son of Earl and Louise little, he had seven

brothers and sisters, he had graduated from the school at the top of the class.

In 1928 we lived in the big house in Milwaukee but it was burned by the KKK.

They then moved in lasing Malcom’s father was crushed by a tram and Malcom’s

mother was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital.

Malcom X was fallen into crime he had burgled houses and stoles , but in prison

he was interested in the historical culture , on leasing prison in 1950 he returned

to the organization of the Blacks Muslim he was appointed pasta of the Temple

Strait .In 1964 he was part of a Mecca and when he returns he disavow their

racism. On 21 February 1965 he was assassinated by two of Blacks Muslim

membres.

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Ernesto Che Guevara

Che Guevara of his real name « Ernesto Rafael Guevara De La Serna » was

born in Rosario, Argentina on June 14th

, 1928. He was died in La Higuera, Bolivie on October 9

th, 1967.

He was a communist a little arrogant , Révolutionary Marxist

He was Cuban and Argentinian.

He became a doctor and millitary Cuban.

After to have achieved its studies of doctor in 1952.

He fought to obtain the rights for the Cubans.

He helps the country by a revolution in Cuba against the dictator Fulgentio

Batista in 1959 . He says that only the revolution can fight against Inequalities

socioeconomic. He became a citizen cuban . She write some books on the practice of the

revolution .

In 1964 ,he made a speech in Alger where Che guevara accused the soviétique

régime because , he thinks that the sovietique régime is not socialist .

He goes in Bolivie for export the revolution but he is captured in the region of Valle Grande by the army Bolivian .

He was executed in october,9th

, 1967 by the orders of the CIA .

Che guevara became a true myth after his death.

Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth Dalaï-Lama , he was born July 6 1935 in Tibet , he is 77

years old today. The Dalalaï-Lama is the chief spiritual and regilious of buddhism tibetan

and the head of government of tibet.

In 1949 , China invades Tibet , Tenzin Gyatso become the Dalaï-Lama , he governed

the Tibet people and he received the highest academic,”guéshé Lharampa” .

Chineses want deprive Tibet people of his chief spiritual and temporal of lay a snare ,

Tenzin Gyatso has to resign to flee in India for avoid a massacre .In India , Nehru, the

Prime Minister of India , welcome Tenzin Gyatso .

Today, the Dalaï-Lama lived in the north of India in Dharamsala ,which are installed

democratic institutions of the Central Tibetan Administration.

In their peaceful struggle, he tries to rally other countries. And, in december 1989, he

obtained the Nobel Peace Prize for his peaceful struggle.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 june 1945 in BIRMANIA,she was the daughter of AUNG SAN, Leader of liberation of BIRMANIA and of DAW

KHIN KYI, ambassador of BIRMANIA in NEW DELHI in INDIA,

Aung san suu kyi was a female politician of BIRMANIA.

She was the general secretary of national ligue for democratia and obtained in

1991 nobel peace price.Aung san suu kyi is Michael Aris wife and the mother

of two children(Alexander and Kim) She is non violent and fight for the Liberty of BIRMANIA AUNG SAN SUU KYI(19 june 1945)

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