SAT经典例证MartinLutherKingJr.doc

Is it better for people to act on their feelings than to talk about them?
中心词：to act & to talk
例证：Martin Luther King Jr.
背景材料：
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist and prominent
leader in the African-American civil right movement.
How 展开：
1.His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
2.There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective.
3.In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; 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 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 (1955-56) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential
Greensboro 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, August 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.
"I have a 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!

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2.Madam C.J.Walker
人物介绍：the first black American woman self-made millionaire
How 展开：
1.orphaned at age seven, married 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. 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 also 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 women's 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, don't sit down and wait for
the opportunities to come. ... Get up and make them!"

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