人权运动Civil Rights Movement

1、共十四页Civil rights movement ABC A. What is civil rights movement ?B. How did it come about? Or what was the background then?(take America for example)C. Big events timeline and great figures D. What was the result or the influence of it? 共十四页What is civil rights movementThecivil rights movementwas a w

2、orldwidepolitical movementforequality before the law occurring between approximately 1950s and 1980s.Main battle fields:Northern Ireland Africa Canada United States German France 共十四页In many situations it took the form of campaigns ofcivil resistance aimed at achieving change bynonviolent forms of r

3、esistance.(sit-in , boycotts etc.) In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, byarmed rebellion.共十四页. How did it come aboutAfter white-dominated Democratic Party regained political control over the South. The Republican Partythe party of Lincolnwhich had been the party that most blacks belo

4、nged to, shrank to insignificance as black voter registration was suppressed. By the early 20th century, almost all elected officials in the South were Democrats.共十四页 During the same time as African Americans were being disfranchised disfrntaiz, white Democrats imposed racial segregation by law. Vio

5、lence against blacks mushroomed. A movement was brewing.共十四页Big events and important figures1955 - Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of bus as required by city regulation; boycott followed and bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional. 共十四页1957 - Arkansas Gov. uses National Guard t

6、o block nine black students from attending a Little Rock High School; following a court order, President Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops to ensure compliance. 1962 - President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to ensure James Meredith, the schools first black student,

7、can attend. 共十四页1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers I Have a Dream speech to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington. 1964 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act declaring discrimination based on race illegal after 75-day long argument.共十四页1966 - Edward Brooke, elected first black U.S. s

8、enator in 85 years. 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee; 1973 - Maynard Jackson ,first black elected mayor of a major Southern U.S. city. 1975 -Voting Rights Act extended. 共十四页1988 - Congress passes Civil Rights Restoration Act over President Reagans veto.1989 - L. Dougl

9、as Wilder (Virginia) becomes first black elected governor.1991 - Civil rights museum opens at King assassination site in Memphis.2009 - Barack Obama took the office of white house in 2009共十四页InfluenceBefore Rosa Parks died, she worried that the young generation of Black American might take equality before the law for granted while forget the effort and scarification of their forefathers.Now the status of black people have improved a lot as a result of civil right movement, nowadays there are still discriminations agains