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Martin Luther King 马丁路德金 Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. 马丁路德金1929年1月15日出生于佐治亚州的亚特兰大。 His father was the minister of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, 其父是埃比尼
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important leader of the American civil rights movement. He helped unite a nation with his powerful speeches and use of non-violent protests. His 1963 I Have a Dream speech is one of the greatest in human histor
'Freedom Riders' Remembered 50 Years Later The American South was a segregated society 50 years ago. In 1960, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and bus terminals serving interstate travel, but African-Americans who tri
On Monday, January 16, Americans will pay tribute to the legacy of slain civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in the annual national holiday that celebrates his birthday (January 15). More than 50 years ago, King campaigned across the
In the 1950s, Jim McFarland's grandmother took him on annual train trips from New York to see relatives in the South. And it's time again for StoryCorps, Americans interview each other. We hear their everyday stories and every week we find out how a
Brown versus Board of Education is one of the countrys most important cases. It overturned an earlier Supreme Court decision, and it helped launch the civil rights movement. At the center of the case was a little girl. In the early 1950s, Linda Brown
I believe in the ingredient s of love. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I believe in truth. I believe in being black and angry. I believe in empathy . I believe in honor, faith and service -- to
Ever since the Civil War, the South has struggled to find ways to deal with its troubled past. The history of the South is one of suffering: the suffering of the Native Americans who were killed or driven off their land by European settlers; the pain
By Deborah Block Washington 26 September 2007 Fifty years ago this week (Thursday, September 27th) the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed into law. It was the first of several civil rights acts over the next several decades to protect the right
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Nazis don't always look like bad guys in funny helmets. The Nazis and other bigots in khaki slacks and bright polo shirts who marched in Charlottesville chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans I'd rather not repeat on a Saturday -
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: President Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville last week seemed to change by the day. He's far from being the first president to struggle with his response to the country's racial divisions. (SOUNDBITE OF MUS
How Could I Love a Race of People Who Hated Me 我如何能热爱一个憎恨我的民族 There was a pretty strict system of segregation in Atlanta. For a long, long time I could not go swimming, until there was a Negro YMCA. A Negro child in Atlant
President Bush has led the nation in a day of prayer and remembrance for the people killed by the winds and flood waters of Hurricane Katrina. 布什总统主持了今天全国的祈祷日活动,纪念在卡特里娜飓风和洪水中丧生的民众。
The makeup of many areas in England and Wales is changing.Almost half of people of ethnic minorities now living in areas where white British people are the minority.One of those areas is the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. People that live here are
By Stephanie Ho Washington 13 November 2006 U.S. dignitaries and celebrities turned out to praise slain American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., at a ceremony marking the groundbreaking of a memorial to honor him. Dr. Maya Angelou takes
今天我们要学的词组是plead。 Plead的意思是辩护, 抗辩。Plead for就是请求、恳求的意思。美国著名黑人律师Thurgood Marshall 1954年在美国最高法院辩论说, 美国学校的种族隔离政策是非法的。 H
By 1961, there were not as many whites only lunch counters left in the South. But far too many waiting rooms, bathrooms, and restaurants in bus and train stations still had separate areas for blacks and whites. It didnt matter that the courts said th
Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time. Today, people around the world still remember all he did in his fight for equality. After Martins death, Coretta carried on her husbands fight. She traveled around the
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