MARTIN LUTHER KING was an American minister and activist who became the leader of the ____ movement from 1954 to 1968, when he was ____. The goal of the movement was to ____ legal rights for African Americans and ultimately had the largest ____ impact after grassroots protests. The movement ____ strategies,various groups and organized social movements to ____ the goal of ending legalized racial discrimination and ____ in the US by using major ____ campaigns ,eventually securing new recognition in ____ law and protection of all Americans. In 1957 Martin Luther King became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and organized the 1963 ____ on Washington, where he ____ his famous "I have a dream" speech.He also won the Nobel Prize for combating racial ____ through non-violent resistance. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include ____ towards poverty. ____ followed his assassination on April 4,1968, in many US cities. He was posthumously ____ two medals, while Martin Luther King Jr Day was ____ as a holiday in numerous cities and states. The Martin Luther King Jr Day Memorial in Washington, DC was ____ in 2011. NELSON ROLIHLALA MANDELA was a South African anti-apartheid ____ political leader and philanthropist, who ____ as President from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black ____ of state and was the first to be elected. His government focused on ____ the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalized ____ and fostering racial ____. He was born to a royal family and studied law. While working as a lawyer in Johannesburg, he became ____ in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics and together with the ANC (African National Congress) committed himself to the ____ of apartheid, which was a system of racial segregation that ____ whites. Mandela served 27 years in prison until President F.W.de Klerk released him in 1990 for fear of a racial ____ war. In the 1994 multiracial general election Mandela ____ his party to victory and became President. Leading a broad ____ government which promulgated a new ____, Mandela emphasized reconciliation between racial groups and investigated past human rights ____. Widely ____ as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received over 250 honours, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

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