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GETTING TO KNOW BLACK HISTORY

Myths and Heroes

ACTIVITY 1 : Study the following pictures then do the activities below.

Look at the pictures. Then match each name with the reason for his/her fame.
Rosa Parks

Mahatma Gandhi

Martin Luther King

was the first Black President of South Africa.

was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement in America.

was a Muslim minister and a human rights activist who

embodied Black Power in America.

 was an African-American civil rights activist known

Desmond Tutu

as the mother of the freedom movement.

is seen as a non-violent hero who inspired movements

Mamphela Ramphele

for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.

Known as an anti-apartheid martyr in South Africa in

Nelson Mandela

the 1960s and 1970s, he founded the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)
Billie Holiday

Malcolm X

is an Anglican bishop who became famous during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
was an American jazz singer famous for her protest

songs against segregation in the 1940s.

Steve Biko

was one of the founders of the Black Consciousness

Movement and an anti-apartheid activist.

ACTIVITY 2 :

What do all these people have in common? For each statement tick

a- Their ancestors were African.

b- Their fathers were born in Africa.
c- They have fought for a better human condition.
d- They were jailed several times.
e- They were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
f- They are remembered every year on a specific day in their countries of birth.
g- They became international icons of resistance to racial segregation.
h- They were religious men.
i- They were greatly inspired by Gandhis non-violent civil disobedience.
j- They have campaigned to fight AIDS and poverty in their countries.
k- He was a Muslim.
l- They were shot dead.

the corresponding people.

Nelson
Mandela

Martin
Luther
King

Malcom X

Desmond
Tutu

Steve
Biko

Rosa
Parks

Billie
Holiday

Mamphela
Ramphele

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
ACTIVITY 3 : Use what youve just learned about these great people.
Tick

the emblematic figure each statement best applies to .

Nelson Mandela

a- He was a man of church like his father.

b- His father was chief of a small African village.
c- As a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, he taught black supremacy
and advocated separation of black and white Americans.
d- He organized protests and mobilized his people in a pacific manner.
e- He spent 27 years in prison as an enemy of the state on Robben
Island.
f- He was a civil rights lawyer.
g- He is one of the worlds greatest and most admired political leaders.

Martin Luther
King

Malcolm X

Mahatma
Gandhi