Unit 3 Section B --Martin Luther King, Jr.ppt

1、-Martin Luther King, Jr.,Unit 3 What were you doing when the rainstorm came? Section B,Are you familiar with this exciting speech ?,Martin Luther King -A hero in American history,The background,Graduated in 1948, and from 1948 to 1951, he studied in Philadelphia for further study. Visited the presid

2、ent Kennedy in 1963 and ask for equal rights. On August 23, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was at the front of the March on Washington. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that day, Dr. King delivered a speech that was later entitled I Have a Dream.,In 1964, Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize fo

3、r leading non-violent demonstrations. In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while he was leading a workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee.,His life was threatened many times, have been ten times under various names imprisonment (监禁) three times was put in prison, three times by the ass

4、assination(行刺). On April 4, 1968, he was shot by a racial element in the hotel balcony, then he died ,he was only 39.,This is the place where he was shot.,If you want to protest something, how would you go about it ?,Now let the great man-Martin Luther King , Jr. tells you how to do!,In his time, th

5、e African-Americans had no access to equal civil rights at all. In order to fight for their legal rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. began his work.,Fighting for the rights,On August 23, 1963, a crowd of more than 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. and marched to the Capitol Building to suppor

6、t the passing of laws that guaranteed every American equal civil rights. That day, Dr. King delivered a speech that was later entitled “I Have a Dream.”,I have a dream,2020/8/13,I say to you today my friends - so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is

7、 a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.,2020/8/13,I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.,I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of forme

8、r slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom a

9、nd justice.,I have a dream that my four little 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!,Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s death did not slow the Civil Rights Movement. Black and white peopl

10、e continued to fight for freedom and equality. Coretta Scott King is the widow of the civil rights leader. In 1970, she established the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Atlanta, Georgia.,On Monday, January 20, 1986, in cities and towns across the country people celebrated the first official

11、 Martin Luther King Day, the only federal holiday commemorating an African-American.,An earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied. For this day, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jrs return to the National Mall. In this place, he will stand f

12、or all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it; a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect.,Martin Luther King Day,And Dr. King would be the first to remind us that this memorial is not for him alone. The movement of which he was a part depended on