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Civilisation des Etats-Unis 8d: African Americans
Prof. Sämi LUDWIG
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black churches: Black Baptists, AMC Scottsboro Trial: - all-white jury sentences nine black boys to death for rape - retrials, world-wide notoriety s: armed forces integrate under Harry Truman
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Civil Rights Movement - Martin Luther King (1929-1968) prot
Civil Rights Movement - Martin Luther King ( ) 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 assassinated in Memphis TN
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Supreme Court Legislation 1954 Brown vs
Supreme Court Legislation Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka against “separate but equal” decision of (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
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Rosa Parks 1952 Montgomery, AL
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1962 University of Mississippi integrates
1962 University of Mississippi integrates o JFK sends federal guardsmen Civil Rights Act (LBJ administration) by 1971 proportion of black children in Southern schools doubles 1970s “busing”
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