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Student Anthony Banks says, "My motto is if you look good, you do good and if you do good, good things happen. Dress the part, look the part and act the part"

February is Black History Month in the United States. The national observance pays tribute to key figures and events in African Americans history, notably¹ the work of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. An organization that  Dr. King founded,  the Southern Christian² Leadership Conference, has launched a new program to help young people in Memphis, Tennessee.

In the final weeks of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King's civil rights organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC, lead efforts to help the poor and young African Americans in Memphis. "We are getting ready to demand jobs and income," Dr. King said. "We are tired of our children having to attend overcrowded inferior schools.

Forty-two years after King's assassination³ in Memphis, schools there are plagued by other problems -- gangs and violence. But the SCLC is spearheading efforts to change that. Reverend Dwight Montgomery is the president of the the SCLC chapter in Memphis.  "We feel there is a lot of self inflicted⁴ slavery when you talk about black on black crime, when you talk about young people getting in gangs and doing negative activities," he explained. "Because all of those things are hurting our community and hurting the advancement⁵ of African American people."

"They say I look like the president. They say I remind them of President Obama, so they wanted my autograph," Anthony Banks said. Banks says its the reaction he gets from his classmates when they see him dressed in a suit and tie. He used to be in a gang, but now he is taking part in the SCLC's dress for success program. Reverend Montgomery, says he's trying to motivate young black students.

"Not only to dress for success but to think for success," Montgomery said. "Go to school, stay in school, get your lesson and don't be a part of gangs. And more importantly seek for some career or additional educational to be of good success in the community."

Anthony Banks says he grew tired of life as a gang member, and even looking like a gang member. "Once a person sees you dressed like that they automatically stereotype⁶ you and say, 'He is up to no good,' because you are portraying⁷ a negative image," he said.

With help of the SCLC and corporate⁸ sponsors, Anthony and other  students are given professional work attire⁹ and encouraged to study hard and position themselves towards meaningful careers. 

"I feel good. I feel like I am going to be somebody, I 'm going to be somebody," Banks stated.

The dress for success campaign also has a mentoring¹⁰ program to guide troubled teenagers in the right direction. Bank loan officer Marquette Eddins is one of the mentors¹¹. "You can obtain anything that you want to as long as you put your mind to it," Eddins said. "Stay focused and with the leadership of us helping¹² to guide their way to make that transition a little bit easier on them."

Anthony says he is proud of what he sees in the mirror, not only with the new look but a new attitude. Now he wants to go  to college after high school and someday become a lawyer. "My motto is if you look good, you do good and if you do good, good things happen," Banks said. "Dress the part, look the part and act the part.
 

1 notably   

adv.值得注意地，显著地，尤其地，特别地

参考例句：

• Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
• A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。

2 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

3 assassination   

n.暗杀；暗杀事件

参考例句：

• The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
• Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。

4 inflicted   

把…强加给，使承受，遭受( inflict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team. 他们使主队吃了一场很没面子的败仗。
• Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her. 卓娅英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑。

5 advancement   

n.前进，促进，提升

参考例句：

• His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
• The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。

6 stereotype   

n.固定的形象，陈规，老套，旧框框

参考例句：

• He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
• There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。

7 portraying   

v.画像( portray的现在分词 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• The artist has succeeded in portraying my father to the life. 那位画家把我的父亲画得惟妙惟肖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Ding Ling was good at portraying figures through careful and refined description of human psychology. 《莎菲女士的日记》是丁玲的成名作，曾引起强烈的社会反响。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

8 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

9 attire   

v.穿衣，装扮[同]array；n.衣着；盛装

参考例句：

• He had no intention of changing his mode of attire.他无意改变着装方式。
• Her attention was attracted by his peculiar attire.他那奇特的服装引起了她的注意。

10 mentoring   

n.mentoring是一种工作关系。mentor通常是处在比mentee更高工作职位上的有影响力的人。他/她有比‘mentee’更丰富的工作经验和知识，并用心支持mentee的职业（发展）。v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• One of the most effective instruments for coaching and mentoring is the "role rehearsal" . 辅导和教学的最有效的手段之一是“角色排练。” 来自辞典例句
• Bell Canada called their mentoring system a buddy-buddy system. 加拿大贝尔公司称他们的训导系统是伙伴—伙伴系统。 来自互联网

11 mentors   

n.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的名词复数 )v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Beacham and McNamara, my two mentors, had both warned me. 我的两位忠实朋友，比彻姆和麦克纳马拉都曾经警告过我。 来自辞典例句
• These are the kinds of contacts that could evolve into mentors. 这些人是可能会成为你导师。 来自互联网

12 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。