[工程科技]美国文化.pptVIP

Contents Civil Rights Movement Segregation laws (隔离法) in Southern states in the US prevented black and white people from sitting together in movie theatres, eating in the same restaurants, drinking from the same water fountain, etc. Although these are not Amendment (补充法案）to the US Constitution, the US government would not declare the Southern laws unconstitutional until there were cases brought in the federal courts. The civil rights movements began when black people spontaneously protested segregation laws and created organizations to make the protests successful. Martin Luther King On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D. C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and delivered his best-known speech “I Have a Dream” before the Lincoln Memorial . Thus he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964. But he was tragically murdered four years later. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Martin Luther King’s honor. States original 48 states Alaska and Hawaii, separated from the continent, became the 49th and 50th states in 1959. Alaska borders on northwestern Canada Hawaii lies in the central Pacific Ocean Alaska—the largest Rhode Island—the smallest Texas—the largest on the mainland As we all know, America is composed of many racial and ethnic(种族的, 部落的, 民族的) groups. It is a nation of immigrants. In the last four centruies, 55 million people have immigrated to this country, reprenting the largest movement of human beings to any one place in the history of mankind. In the late1990s, for example, it was estimated that about 1 million legal immigrants, plus additional 500,000 illegal immigrants, arrived in the United States every year. Without an adequate understanding of populatiion make-up in the United States, it is virtually impossible to grasp the complexity and subtlety(细微的差别) of its national character. Na