文档介绍：If you want to protest something,
how would you go about it?
let Martin tell you .
Martin Luther King
The content
■ Introduction of Martin
■The Background
■The great speech
Introduction of Martin
January 15, 1929-1968, April 4, the famous American civil rights leader.
Introduction of Martin
in 1948 :as a church pastor.
From 1948 to 1951, Martin Luther King in the east coast of the United States continued to pursue advanced studies in Philadelphia.
In 1963, Martin Luther King went in to the President Kennedy, request through the new Civil Rights Act, to blacks in equal rights.
August 28, 1963 in the Lincoln memorial published before the famous "I have a dream" speech.
the Background
From 16 century, the European settlers began to rob African black people, they sold to American slavery, to make up for the deficiency of the American workforce. This kind of cold blooded slave trade lasted for about four hundred years. Until 1783, the United States of founders decided to abolish the slave trade, but black status is still very low
the Background
After the civil war, the President Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation slaves declaration, slave finally in the law to be free. But more than one hundred years later, the 20th century 50 to 60 s of the United States, racial discrimination and racial oppression phenomenon is still very serious
Background
Discrimination
1、Black people in the United States is still lower citizen, struggle at the foot of the social ladder, life poverty, is less than a good education
2、They could not enter the top institutions at various levels,
3、They could not participate in voting and elections, not like white enjoys the same personality freedom and free
4、In the south of the many states, blacks not in white restaurant dining, many public places hang "is only for white use" brand,
5、even in the bus black also can sit after car, the car central although allow black sit, but there are white get on the car, black mus