美国种族歧视问题(英语版).ppt

Racial Discrimination? For hundreds of years, Africans were taken from their homes to be slaves in the New World. Even e Washington and Thomas Jefferson had slaves. The phrase "all men are created equal" didn't apply to blacks in their day. The end of the Civil War finally brought freedom to the slaves in 1865, but blacks still had a lower position in society. Blacks and whites went to different schools, ate at different restaurants, even drank from different water fountains?KuKluxKlan?is the name of three distinct past and present far-anizations in the United States?Extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism and anti-immigration.?In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., expressed his vision in the famous speech, "I Have a Dream." The dream-rooted in the American Dreamwasn't really , ing together of different races created some tensions. The early Americans (except for the native "Indians") were almost all white Europeans. As more immigrants arrived, European groups fit into society easily. Others found it more difficult. ?In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged black people to use nonviolent means to achieve their goals of equal treatment. Finally, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to stop discrimination in all public places. Angel and Devil??In spite of the ga