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Martin Luther King's arrival.
In 1954, he became a Baptist pastor and practiced in Montgomery, Alabama. -
The abolition of slavery in the United States
President Abraham Lincolm abolishes the slavery -
Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott; its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities and, in December 1956, segregation in buses will be declared unconstitutional. -
The arrest of Nelson Mandela
He was arrested on August 5, 1962. He was released and imprisoned again in 1963, before being sentenced to life imprisonment in 1965 for his clandestine political activities. -
Against racial discrimination.
At the end of August 1963, there was a march on Washington against racial discrimination.
Martin Luther King delivers a speech that will go down in history: "I have a dream". He shares his dream of a united and fraternal America and calls for a struggle for equality, without violence, bitterness, or hatred, in front of 250 000 peoples. -
The beginning of the Vietnam War
Martin Luther King commits himself against the Vietnam War, which he considers a criminal act. He gives the speech "Beyond Vietnam: the moment to break the silence". In this discourse, he aspires to a revolution of values which would make it possible to feel the embarrassment vis-a-vis the contrast between poverty and wealth. -
The Nobel Peace Prize.
Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo thanks to his famous speech.
His commitment to the non-violent struggle against racial segregation is internationally recognized. -
The dead of Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King is assassinated by a white supremacist. He is traveling to Memphis to support black garbage collectors on strike. On the eve of his assassination, he delivers a prophetic speech in which he says he is at the top of the mountain and not afraid of death. -
The Soweto riots
The Soweto riots are a series of demonstrations led by black secondary school students in South Africa supported by the Black Consciousness Movement. The purpose of these demonstrations was to protest in the streets of Soweto against the introduction of Afrikaans as an official language of instruction on an equal footing with English in local schools. To disperse the crowd, the police fired live ammunition. It is estimated that between 176 and 700 people were killed in total. -
Election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa
A week after the historic parliamentary elections won by the African National Congress (ANC), a black man, Nelson Mandela, was elected President of South Africa. -
The first black president of the usa
He obtained 52.9% of the votes and 365 electors in the 2008 presidential election. He is the first black man to become President of the United States. His career has attracted great interest from voters and the media around the world. His presidency comes in the context of the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the crisis in the Middle East,. -
The re-electect of Barak Obama
As a candidate for re-election in the 2012 presidential election, he is opposed to Republican Mitt Romney, beating him with 332 electoral votes and 51% of the national vote. -
The death of nelson mandela
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, died for the first time on 5 December 2013. A natural death that evoked a planetary emotion. Five days later, at an international tribute in Johannesburg, American Barack Obama and Cuban Raul Castro exchanged a historic handshake.
