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1、1Is it better for people to act on their feelings than to talk about them?中心词：中心词：to act Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986.Actions: The African-American Civil Rights Movement : social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination
2、 against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them. The movement characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (195556) in Alabama; “sit-ins“ such as the influential Greensbor
3、o sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.Words: “I Have a Dream“ is a public speech by American activist Martin Luther King, Jr. It was delivered by King on the afternoon of Wednesday, Augu
4、st 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. The speech, delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.2“I have a
5、dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.“I have a dream today!2.Madam C.J.Walker人物介绍：人物介绍：the first black American woman self-made millionaireHow 展开：展开：1.orphaned at age seven, ma
6、rried at age fourteen, and widowed at twenty with a two-year-old daughter, she moved to St. Louis. She decided to start her own line of hair-care products. In 1906, with a few dollars in savings, she set up a mail- order business in Denver, Colorado with the help of her new husband, Charles Walker.
7、Although they later divorced, she kept his name. The company became an extraordinary success. It included a beauty school in Pittsburgh, and opened offices in Indianapolis and Harlem. 2.believed in philanthropy and donated to the YMCA, the NAACP, and the National Association of Colored Women. She al
8、so gave grants to Tuskegee and Palmer Memorial Institute. 3.In 1918 she gave the keynote speech at several NAACP fund-raisers for the anti-lynching effort. Madam Walker was a strong advocate of black womens economic independence, which she encouraged at a time when few jobs were available for women other than teacher or maid. In speech she once gave, she said: “I want to say to every Negro woman present, dont sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. . Get up and make them!“3
