新视野大学英语第三册_Unit7_SectionB.pptVIP

Prepare-reading Text Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1863 and the bloody Civil War fought over the issue of freedom for slaves ended in a treaty of surrender in 1865. But the fight for equal rights for black Americans was just beginning. Their civil rights would not become law until 1964 and rights for blacks came especially slow in southern states where many blacks had worked on plantations. Resistance to equal rights for blacks often turned violent in the 100 years that followed the Civil War. This, however, could neither stop the movement nor turn its greatest leader, Martin