Transcript Unit 2 Civil Rights Movement in USA

Unit 2
Civil Rights Movement in USA
李伟荣
湖南大学外国语学院
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Abraham Lincoln
 Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth
president of the US. As President, he issued
The Emancipation Proclamation (《解放黑
人奴隶宣言》) that declared forever free
those slaves within the Confederacy (南部邦
联).
John F. Kennedy
 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the thirty-fifth
president of the US. In his Inaugural
Address (就职演说) he said: “Ask not what
your country can do for you — ask what you
can do for your country.” As President, he
took vigorous action in the cause of equal
rights, calling for new civil rights legislation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 Dr. King was a pivotal (关键) figure in the Civil
Rights Movement. His lectures and dialogues
stirred (激起) the concern and sparked the
conscience of a generation.
 In one of his speeches, he said, “I have a dream
that my four children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin, but by the content of their character. I have a
dream today. I have a dream that ... one day right
there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls
will be able to join hands with the little white boys
and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a
dream today.”
Bobby Kennedy
 Bobby Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, was the brother of
President John F. Kennedy. He was appointed attorney
general (司法部长) of the United States in the early 1960s.
 In September 1962, Attorney General Kennedy enforced a
Federal court order admitting the first African American
student — James Meredith — to the University of Mississippi.
The riot (暴动) that had followed Meredith’s registration (注册)
had left two dead and hundreds injured. Robert Kennedy saw
voting as the key to racial (种族的) justice (正义) and
collaborated (合作) with President Kennedy when he proposed
the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Reconstruction,
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed after President Kennedy
was slain on November 22, 1963.
Timeline of Slavery
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1619 — Slaves in Virginia
1705 — Slaves as Property
1775 — American Revolution Began
1776 — Declaration of Independence
1783 — American Revolution Ended
1808 — United States Banned Slave Trade
1860 — Abraham Lincoln Elected
1861~1865 — United States Civil War
1863 — The Emancipation Proclamation
1865 — Slavery Abolished