Номер 6, страница 67 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Number eight.

Exercise six.

Listen to the text, Martin Luther King, and do the task from Exercise six.

Martin Luther King.

During the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, Martin Luther King Junior was a famous leader in the movement to give civil rights for Black Americans. In those years, Afro-Americans were denied many civil rights. For example, in many places, Black Americans could not vote, go to the same restaurants as white people, or get good jobs because of their color.

King worked to make the government guarantee civil rights for Black Americans. King and his followers used peaceful methods, protest marches and boycotts to force the government to change the law.

King began to work in Montgomery, Alabama, where he served as pastor of a Baptist church. In nineteen fifty-five, Rosa Parks, a black woman of Montgomery, was arrested because she hadn't given up her seat to a white passenger in the bus.

This arrest led to a boycott of city buses organized by King and other Black leaders. For over a year, thousands of Afro-Americans in Montgomery stopped riding city buses.

Finally, the law in the city of Montgomery was changed, and King became known throughout the country. Probably the most famous of King's protest actions was held in August nineteen sixty-three in Washington, D.C.

More than two hundred thousand people met in the capital to march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Millions more watched the march on television.

Under King's leadership, the civil rights movement won important victories. In nineteen sixty-four, Congress passed a law that stopped unfair treatment of Black Americans in public places. In nineteen sixty-five, a protest organized by King resulted in a federal law that gave voting rights to Black Americans.

On April the fourth, nineteen sixty-eight, King was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just thirty-nine years old. Now, his birthday in January is a national holiday in the USA.