American_Social_Movement讲课.pptVIP

Social Movements of the 1960s 1.The Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Movement National campaign by African-Americans for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s. boycotts (抵制), sit-in (静坐) in 1963 a march to Washington led by Martin Luther King. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Segregation The Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow was a character in an old song who was revived by a white comedian called Daddy Rice. Rice used the character to make fun of black people and the way that they spoke. The term Jim Crow came to be used as an insult against black people. ? In a