Unit 3 Fairness for all Listening 课件.pptVIP

Name Nannie Helen Burroughs Year of birth Chosen career Name of school Curriculum Importance 1879 Teacher School of the three Bs Vocational courses, music, English literature, black history Offered poor women a training Name William E B Dubois Year of birth Education level Abilities Chosen career Importance 1898 Master’s degree Athlete, lawyer and singer Singer Kept alive black culture Biography 1 William E B Dubois was a person who spent his life fighting injustice and defending freedom. He was born in 1868, when there were no civil rights for black people in the southern USA and died in 1963 just as many African countries were being freed from British colonial rule. Listening text All his life he spoke against racial discrimination and became one of the most famous black leaders of his generation. He was one of the founders of the NAACP which is an organization fighting for equality in civil rights. Sadly in 1963 he visited Ghana and died while he was there. He is remembered as one of the few scholars who made an honest academic study of the black man. His book for his doctor’s degree on the end of the slave trade in America is still the most important study of this subject. Biography 2 Narrator 1: My name is Nannie Helen Burroughs and I was born in 1879. I wanted to become a teacher so that I could offer poor women some professional training. In this way I hoped I could help them to earn a better salary and have a higher standard of living. But although I was very well qualified, I was prevented from teaching because I was black and it took me many years to raise the money to begin my own school. When I finally opened the school, it offered many vocational courses (including home nursing, beauty and dress-making) as well as music and English literature. I also insisted that all students take a course in black history. It was a great success. I called it the School of the Three Bs---the Bible, the Bath and the Broom. Narrator 2: When Nannie Burroug