The Situation

• Segregation

• Separate but equal

• Voting rights

Ku Klux Klan

• Foundation 24.12.1865

• Repression of black people

• Brutal action against blacks

• Civil rights movement caught on

Rosa Parks

• Born on 4th Febuary 1913

• 1st December 1955

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Died on 24th October 2005

Martin Luther King jr. *15.1.1929 † 4.4.1968

• Born on15th January 1929

• Theologian, civil rights activist

• Civil disobendience (ziviles Ungehorsam)

• Shot on 4th April 1968

Malcom X

• Born on 19th May 1925

• Against Martin Luther King

• Rowdier counteraction

• Died on 21st February 1956

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

• Political demonstration on 28th August

• More than 250,000 protesters

• “I have a Dream“

Bloody Sunday in Selma

• First march

• 7th 1965 March

• 600 peaceful demonstrators

• police

Black Panther Party

• Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

• Founded in 1966

• armed counteraction

• Till 1979