unit 2: civil rights heroes

Unit 2: Civil Rights HeroesUnit 2: Civil Rights Heroes

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Script for the Recording

The song you are going to listen to is called Abraham, Martin & John, sung by Dion.

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Abraham, Martin & John

Dion

Has anybody here,

Seen my old friend Abraham,

Can you tell me, where he’s gone,

He freed a lotta people,

But it seems the good die young,

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I just looked around,

And he’s gone.

Has anybody here,

Seen my old friend John,





And he’s gone.



Has anybody here,

Seen my old friend Martin,

Can you tell me, where he’s gone




And he’s gone.

Didn’t you love the things they stood for,

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Didn’t they try to find some good for you and me,

And we’ll be free,

Someday soon it’s gonna be one day,

Has anybody here,

Seen my old friend Bobby,


I thought I saw him walkin’ up over the hill,

With Abraham, Martin and John.



Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln 16th president of the U.S.A.

He issued the Emancipation Proclamation ( 奴隶解放宣言 ) that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy ( 南部邦联 ).

On April 14, 1865, he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the US. As President, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation ( 奴隶解放宣言 ) that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy ( 南部邦联 ).

During the Civil War Lincoln stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln’s death, the possibility of peace died.

Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln

Martin Luther Martin Luther KingKing

one of the most important figure in civil rights campaign.

“I have a dream!” He was shot while

standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

Dr. King was a pivotal ( 关键 ) figure in the Civil Rights Movement. His lectures and dialogues stirred ( 激起 ) the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation.

In one of his speeches, he said, “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that ... one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.”

Dr. King was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. Dr. King was in Memphis to help lead sanitation workers in a protest against low wages and intolerable working conditions.

John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy

He was the youngest man elected President and was the youngest to die.

•As president, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. On Nov. 22, 1963, he was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the US.

In his Inaugural Address ( 就职演说 ) he said: “Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.” As President, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation.

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade ( 汽车队 ) wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.

Robert F. Robert F. Kennedy / Kennedy / Bobby K.Bobby K.

• The brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was appointed attorney general ( 司法部长 ) of the United States in the early 1960s.

• The Civil Right Act

Bobby Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, was the brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was appointed Attorney General ( 司法部长 ) of the United States in the early 1960s.

In September 1962, Attorney General Kennedy enforced a Federal court order admitting the first African American student -- James Meredith -- to the University of Mississippi. The riot ( 暴动 ) that had followed Meredith’s registration ( 注册 ) had left two dead and hundreds injured.

Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key to racial ( 种族的 ) justice ( 正义 ) and collaborated ( 合作 ) with President Kennedy when he proposed the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed after President Kennedy was slain on November 22, 1963.

Robert Francis Kennedy was slain on June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He was 42 years old. Although his life was cut short, Robert Kennedy’s vision and ideals live on today.

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Black Africans were first brought as slaves to what

was to become the United States in the seventeenth

century. Slavery was strongest in the South, where

large plantations grew cotton, tobacco, and other

crops. Towards the end of the 18th century, a growing

demand for cotton led to an increase in the

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Region. Slavery was less profitable in the North,

however, and much of the opposition to slavery

came from the northern states. The tension between

the North and the South over the issue of slavery led

to the Civil War in 1861.

With the victory of the North, slavery was

abolished. Discrimination, however, did not end.

Black Americans were treated as second

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Class citizens, especially in the South. Dissatisfaction

with unfair treatment eventually led to the civil rights

protests of the 1950s and 1960s that brought about

government action aimed at reducing discrimination.

As a result, African Americans have come a long

way in the last fifty years, but they still find themselves

at a disadvantage in comparison with Americans of

European descent. Only 17 per cent of the

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black population are able to finish higher education, in

contrast to 28 per cent of whites. Incomes for the

average white family were just over $44,000 in 1999.

For an average black family, however, the figure was in

the region of $25,000. Not one of the chief executive

officers of the top 500 companies is black.

Anyway, the civil-rights movement in the U.S. still has a

long way to go.

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The Underground Railroad: a secret system used in

the US before the Civil War for helping thousands

of slaves to escape to the free states or Canada. The

slaves were called “passengers”, the people who

helped them were “conductors”, and the slaves hid

in “stations” (safe houses) along the way.


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Uncle Tom’s Cabin: a novel

(1852) by the US writer Harriet

Beecher Stowe. According to

legend, when Abraham Lincoln

met Harriet Beecher Stowe in

1862 he said, "So you're the little

woman who wrote the book that

started this Great War!"


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---based on the life in narrative of Josiah

Henson, a runaway slave

---brought the evils of slavery to the attention

of Americans

---contributed to the outbreak of war

The book had a strong emotional appeal that

moved and inspired people in a way that

political speeches, tracts and newspapers

accounts could not duplicate.


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In this novel, Tom is a kind slave who is badly t

reated and finally killed by Simon Legree.

The name Uncle Tom

is sometimes used as

an insult to describe

an African-American

who has too much respect for white people.


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Moses: ( in the Bible) the

leader who brought the

Israelites out of slavery

in Egypt and led them to

the Promised Land.



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As an everlasting possession I

will give you and your descen

dants after you the land in w

hich you now are aliens, all th

e land of Canaan, and I will b

e God to your descendants.

我要把你们居此不久的这片土地，即全部迦南的土地赐给你和你的后代，作为永久的财产。我是你子孙后代的上帝。

Quaker : any member of the Society of Friends,

a religious group established in England in the

1650s by George Fox. They were originally

called Quakers because members were thought

to “quake” or shake with religious excitement.

Quakers worship Christ without any formal

ceremony or fixed beliefs, and their meetings

often involve silent thought or prayer. They are


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strongly opposed to

violence and war, and

are active in education

and charity work.


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Popular abolitionist emblem,designed in 1787

Popular abolitionist emblem,designed in 1787

Grand Central Terminal: the best-known railway

station in the US. It is on East 42nd Street in New

York and was completed in 1913 in the American

Beaux Art style. The main area is very large, and

the trains enter and leave the station on 123 tracks,

arranged on two levels. The station is often

crowded: You can’t move in there---it’s like Grand

Central Station!


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Methodist: a member of the Methodist Church,

the largest of the Protestant Free Churches in

Britain and the US. It was established in 1739 by

John Wesley as part of the Church of England

but it became separate from it in 1795. It was

introduced into the US in the 18th century and

today has over 50 million members around the

world. It emphasized the importance of moral

issues, both personal and social.


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Using Library resources

You will by now be used to using brainstorming to generate information on topics you write about. However, in writing about complex and serious issues, you cannot expect to generated all the ideas by brainstorming, which focus on what you already know. Suppose you want to write about the impact of the civil-rights movement in America. You may already have some ideas on this issue. By brainstorming, you can develop a general framework. However, that is not sufficient for you to write a paper on such a serious

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and complex topic. You will find it necessary to do some library research on the issue. A college library usually has the following basic sources which help you locate the information you need: General References General references include dictionaries, encyclopedias, and atlases. They can give you a basic understanding of a topic.Index, Catalogs They give information on what has been written and published about a subject.

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Abstracts Abstracts not only list subject headings, but also summarize key information in a highly condensed form.Bibliographies A bibliography---a list of publications on a subject---gives you an overview of what has been published on a given subject. Follow the research guides provided by each library and you should be able to find the necessary information for your essay.

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