The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement

• The Simple Past
• Regular and Irregular Verbs

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History of the Civil Rights Movement

• After the civil war in the United States, black
  people did not have
• the same rights as white people. Restaurant
  owners did not allow black
• people to eat in the same part of a restaurant as
  white people. Bus
• drivers told black people to sit at the back of
  the bus or stand up for
• white passengers. One day a woman named Rosa
  Parks got on a bus.
• She was very tired. She did not want to go to
  the back of the bus. The
• police took her to jail. This began the civil
  rights movement.
• Martin Luther King was the leader of the civil
  rights movement. He
• led protests in many states. In 1963 he walked
  with thousands of
• people to Washington D.C. He gave a speech
  called, I Have a
• Dream. Now we have a holiday that remembers
  Martin Luther King
• every third Monday in January.

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The Simple Past

• Use the simple past to talk about actions,
  states, and situations in the past that are now
  finished.

Martin Luther King was the leader of the civil
rights movement.
Rosa Parks got on a bus.
Many people walked to Washington D.C.
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The Past- was/were

• Use the past tense of BE with adjectives and
  nouns (words for people, places or things).

Martin Luther King was the leader of the civil
rights movement.
Rosa Parks was very tired.
Many people were sad when Martin Luther King died.
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The Past- regular verbs

• The past tense of regular verbs is formed by
  adding d or ed to the base form of the verb.

The police arrested Martin Luther King many times.
Many people admired Martin Luther King.
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The Past- irregular verbs

• Many past tense verbs are irregular. We dont
  add ed.

Martin Luther King gave a speech called, I Have
a Dream.
The speech became famous.
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The Past- negatives

• Use did not or didnt a base form verb to make
  the past tense negative.

Restaurant owners did not allow black people to
sit in the same part of a restaurant as white
people.
Black people didnt have the same rights as white
people.
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References

• Images and Video from
• Life Magazine. All photos. Online images 6
  January 2001.
• CNN. I Have a Dream. Online video clip 6
  January 2001.
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