Civilisation des Etats-Unis 8d: African Americans Prof. Sämi LUDWIG
black churches: Black Baptists, AMC 1931 Scottsboro Trial: - all-white jury sentences nine black boys to death for rape - retrials, world-wide notoriety 1950s: armed forces integrate under Harry Truman
Civil Rights Movement - Martin Luther King (1929-1968) prot Civil Rights Movement - Martin Luther King (1929-1968) prot. minister - Montgomery, AL bus strike no public transportation for a year - garbage collectors strike 1956 bus segregation unconstitutional 1964 Nobel Peace Prize - non-violence, follow Gandhi 1968 assassinated in Memphis TN
Supreme Court Legislation 1954 Brown vs Supreme Court Legislation 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka against “separate but equal” decision of 1896 (Plessy vs. Ferguson) o resistance in South 1957 Central HS in Little Rock, Arkansas: Governor uses state troops to bar entrance, but Eisenhower sends federal paratroopers
Rosa Parks 1952 Montgomery, AL
1962 University of Mississippi integrates 1962 University of Mississippi integrates o JFK sends federal guardsmen 1964 Civil Rights Act (LBJ administration) by 1971 proportion of black children in Southern schools doubles 1970s “busing”