問題詳情
(4) The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between1876 and 1965. They assigned authority to racial segregation in all public facilities.After World War II, African Americans increasingly challenged segregation, as theybelieved they had more than earned the right to be treated as full citizens because oftheir military service and sacrifices. The Civil Rights Movement was energized by anumber of flashpoints, including the 1946 attack on World War II veteran IsaacWoodard while he was in U.S. Army uniform in South Carolina. In 1948, President HarryS. Truman issued Executive Order 9981, desegregating the armed services.Rosa Parks’ 1955 act of civil disobedience, in which she refused to give up her seaton a bus to a white man, was a catalyst in later years of the Civil Rights Movement.The Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr., which followed Rosa Parks’action, was, however, not the first of its kind. Numerous boycotts and demonstrationsagainst segregation had occurred throughout the 1930s and 1940s. These earlydemonstrations achieved positive results and helped spark political activism. Leroy Irvisof Pittsburgh’s Urban League in Pennsylvania, for instance, led a demonstration againstemployment discrimination by Pittsburgh’s department stores in 1947, launching hisown influential political career.In 1964, President Johnson pushed Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. On July 2,President Johnson signed the historic legislation. However, on June 21, three civil rightsworkers disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi. The three were volunteers aidingin the registration of African-American voters as part of the Mississippi Summer Project.Forty-four days later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered their bodies buriedin an earthen dam. The Neshoba County deputy sheriff, Cecil Price and 16 others, all KuKlux Klan members, were indicted for the crimes; seven were convicted.The murder of voting-rights activists gained national attention. Finally, the attackon March 7, 1965 by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund PettusBridge in Selma, Alabama, persuaded President Johnson to issue a call for a strongvoting rights law. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended legally sanctioned state barriersto voting for all federal, state and local elections.
【題組】54. What is the main idea of this passage about?
(A) The Voting Rights Act.
(B) The life of Martin Luther King.
(C) The content of Jim Crow Laws.
(D) The history of Civil Rights.
參考答案
答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)