THE BUTLER

LEAD-IN - SUMMARY•Loosely based on the real life of Eugene

Allen

•Grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family

•In the 1950s he becomes a butler in the White House

•His son (Louis) struggle for a just world

THE TRAILERWatch in YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUA7rr0bOcc

LEGAL POINT• Slavery

▫ It was the age of slavery and triangular trade in the fifteenth century

▫ in December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man : she was arrested

• Rights of black people

Wage : In this fils, Cecil Gaines asked that would be equal to the wage white people were earning.

Right to vote

• Apartheid▫ "the state of being apart“▫ a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through

legislation by the National Party governments

•Advance :

Slavery abolished in 1865

The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America : "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude of any kind can not exist in the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction“ December 18, 1865

Martin Luther King ; “I have a dream” in 1963

Right to vote : 15 e amendment

LEGAL POINT

CONCLUSION

•The right to vote was granted to African Americans by the 15th Amendment.

But it took more than 90 years of struggle, to make it true.

• Some racial discrimination persists in the United States .