1. Civilisation des Etats-Unis 8d: African Americans
Prof. Sämi LUDWIG

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Rosa Parks 1952 Montgomery, AL

6. 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”