The American Civil Rights Movement by Benjamin Türksoy

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By Benjamin Türksoy

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, word: 2, Universität Hamburg (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: American Civil Rights flow, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: In March 1958, a pacifistic crew named “The Fellowship of Reconciliation” that had supplied such a lot of CORE’s early leaders despatched James Lawson to Nashville to steer a workshop in non-violence for African-American activists. A 12 months later, as a divinity pupil at Nashville’s Vanderbilt collage, Lawson drew a small yet morally charged variety of younger women and men from the black schools to his standard education classes in non-violent protest1. within the fall of 1959, this Nashville pupil workforce levels attempt sit-ins at segregated urban eating places and lunch counters. Staying simply lengthy sufficient to attract refusal of provider, they failed both to alter administration coverage or to attract others into the protest. Lawson had outrun the zeitgeist by way of a couple of months. With the Greensboro sit-ins of February 1960, even though, the Nashville staff bought a prophetic luster. quickly Lawson was once directing enormous quantities of scholars who volunteered in disciplined protests opposed to segregation in downtown stores.

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