雅思口语素材：Dr.Martin Luther King Day马丁.路德.金纪念日_雅思英语口语

雅思口语素材：Dr.Martin Luther King Day马丁.路德.金纪念日

　　On August 23, 1963, a crowd of more than 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. and marched to the Capitol Buildingto support the passing of laws that guaranteed every American equal civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was at the front of the March on Washington. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorialthat day, Dr. King delivered a speech that was later entitled I Have a Dream. The March was one of the largest gatherings of black and white people that the nations capital had ever seen... and no violence occurred.

　　One year later, the Civil Rights Actof 1964 was passed. It was not the first law of civil rights for Americans, but it was the most thorough and effective. The act guaranteed equal rights in housing, public facilities, voting and public schools. Everyone would have impartial hearingsand jury trials. A civil rights commission would ensure that these laws were enforced. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and thousands of others now knew that they had not struggled in vain. In the same year Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading non-violent demonstrations.

　　In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while he was leading a workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee. White people and black people who had worked so hard for peace and civil rights were shocked and angry. The world grieved the loss of this man of peace.

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　　Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s death did not slow the Civil Rights Movement. Black and white people continued to fight for freedom and equality. Coretta Scott King is the widow of the civil rights leader. In 1970, she established the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Atlanta, Georgia. This living memorial consists of his boyhood home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King is buried.