In New Orleans, as in the entire southern United States, racial segregation was still part of everyday life even in the 1950s. For example, shortly after the relocation, Georg Iggers was forcibly removed from a bus along with his children because he insisted on sitting in the back, “black” part. During “Mardi Gras” there was an accident involving a black man who got under one of the floats and when Georg went to get help the first thing he was asked was if the victim was black or white. During this time, Georg and Wilma Iggers became more and more involved in the black civil rights movement and had many contacts with their representatives, e.g. B. Daisy Bates, the famous black civil rights activist.