The Study On Faith And Its Function In African-America Civil Rights Movement

African-American Civil Rights Movement, which also named as American Black People Civil Movement, was a social movement that black people in American fighted for the equal rights with white people during 1950 to 1970. The aim of this movement was basically attained. Success made because of different kinds of powers that interactived and balanced, as well as many elements fitting together. While faith in the movement played an important role.As for faith, we define it as an extremely believing status, and it is the self-consistent multi-dimensional "the universe" style that is in subject’s spiritual world. In the American culture background, especially black culture, Christian faith accounts for the biggest part.This thesis takes the object as faith in American civil rights movement, To interpretate and explain African American civil rights movement through the political function that faith takes, influence of the movement nature, spiritual and ethic. This thesis aims as explaining how faith affected the social movement, and how it affected the whole style and result of it.This thesis is altogether forth chapters. The first chapter focuses on the meaning and nature of faith. The second chapter focuses on the background of faith in American black people’s culture. The third chapter studies how dose faith elements in the movement affects the nature of this movement. Since the movement was distinct because the nonviolence method was taken, especially from the thought of famous leader-Martin Luther King. The forth chapter studies the function that faith took, which include the political function, the spiritual and ethic effect.Literature study method, historical method, interdisciplinary research method are used in the thesis. And the writer thinks that in the African American movement, faith took the huge effect in its political, nature of movement, ethic and spiritual level.