Civil-Rights-Movement-美国民权运动PPT.ppt

Ku Klux KlanFormer Confederate soldiers founded the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) after the American Civil War (1861-1865). The KKK used violence and intimidation to prevent blacks from voting and holding office, and to keep them segregated. Big events and important figures It begins with a bus. The National City Lines bus, No. 2857, is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.  Goal: to demand a fixed dividing line for the segregated sections of the buses: if the white section of the bus was oversubscribed, whites would have to stand; blacks need not give their seats to whites. The boycott gained support from black community. About 50 000 blacks participated Since the city’s black population who were the drivers of the boycott were also the main pary of the system‘s ridership. crippling financial deficit for the Montgomery public transit system 1962 -- President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to ensure James Meredith, the schools first black student, can attend. 1963 -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers I Have a Dream speech to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington. * Civil rights movement A. What is civil rights movement ? B. How did it come about? Or what was the background then? C. Big events timeline and great figures D. What was the result or the influence of it? What is civil rights movement The?civil rights movement?was a worldwide?political movement?for?equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950s and 1980s. Main battle fields: Northern Ireland Africa Canada United States German France In many situations it took the form of campaigns of?civil resistance aimed at achieving change by?nonviolent forms of resistance.(sit-in , boycotts etc.) In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, by?armed rebellion. . How did it come about After white-dominated Democratic Party regained political control over the South. The Republican Party—the party of Lincoln—