《Lesson 4 The Civil Rights Movement》.ppt

The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was it? By Alice Walker Alice Walker Alice Walker was an American black writer, famous for The Color Purple (1983), her third novel. Her essay “The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?” won the first prize in the annual American Scholar essay contest in 1967. Civil Rights Movement It refers to the U.S. mass movement starting in the late 1950s. It began on December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the Negro Section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The black there began to boycott (联合抵制) the city’s bus system to protest her arrest. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the boycott became a massive resistance. As a result, the civil rights movement broke the pattern of racially segregated（隔离）public facilities such as buses. The progress also spread to the field of legislation（立法）and the black got certain equal rights. The movement began to decline in the late 1960s. Civil Rights Movement Before the Civil Rights Movement, the black were segregated in public places. For instance, there were separate drinking fountains for whites and blacks, “colored balconies” in movie theatres, and the segregated seats in the back of the bus. In the short life of Martin Luther King, he struggled to change these conditions, and to win equal protection under the law for citizens of all races. Martin Luther King Martin Luther King, Jr. was a black Baptist（基督教浸信会）minister, who became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. His fame was established through the organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the advancement of nonviolent protest actions such as the massive march on Washington in 1963. He won Nobel Prize for Peace in the following year. He was assassinated in 1968. After his death, the Civil Rights Movement began to decline. Alabama Text Organization Part 1: A general Introduction: How the change came. Part 2: Mother’s feeling as an example of B