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Benjamin Mays
He was the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta and helped educate people like Martin Luther King Jr. about segregation. he also had leadership roles in the YMCA, NAACP, Peace Corps. Advisory Committee, and many more. He was an African American Activists. -
1946 Governor's Race/ End of the White Primary
Three Governor ControversyIt was also known as the Three Governor Controversy. Eugene Talmadge was elected governor, but he died and three others thought they were supposed to take his place. Herman Talmadge ,his son, was elected by state legistlature. However, the luitenent governor thought he should become governor. And the previous governor would't leave until there was for sure a governor to take his place. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge was son of Eugene Talmadge and was elected governor during the special election because of his father, who was governor at the time, died. The special election was held because of the Three Governor Controversy. Talmadge was not for the civil rights legislation, but he began to reach out to black voters in the 1970s. he was a democrate and white supremacist. -
Brown v. Board of Education
A black man wanted his daughter to go to a white school because he thought it was better. It was a case taken to the Supreme Court that declared separate public schools for black and white students is unconstitutional. it changed the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896. it was given the name because of five other cases heard by the Supreme Court dealing with segregation of public schools. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream SpeechHe focused a lot on family, church, and education. He graduaated from Morehouse College and was a Baptist minister. He was also president of the SCLC. He agreed to let people discuss the bus boycott in his church. Also he served as head of the Montgomery Improvement Association. He and other MIA members were arrested and his home was even bombed by segregationists. The KIng and SCLC had non-violent campaigns. He is famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech and won a Noble Peace Prize at age 35. -
1956 State Flag
In 1956, all of the legistlative session was focused on Governor Marvin Griffin's flag idea to show they didn't want desegregated schools. Because of them not wanting to schools the put the Confederate battle flag on 2/3 of the new Georgia flag. Denmark Groover said that the new flag "will show that we in Georgia intend to uphold what we stood for, will stand for and will fight for". In the 1980's attempted to change the flag and it wouldn't fly in municipal buildings. It was changed in 2001. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was mostly in Atlanta and Albany in Georgia. In April of 1960 students from the sit-in movements met Ella Baker, executive secretary of SCLC, and they made SNCC. It was a group of students who used nonviolence to oppose segregation. They were involved in the Albany Movement, but many were arrested. They had massive sit-ins and freedom rides. Atlanta was its heaquarters. However when Brown went into hiding the SNCC finished. -
Sibley Commission
Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. had to decide if he should close public schools or integrate the schools because of federal order. The General Assembly Committee on Schools, known as the Sibley Commission had to gather state residents' sentiments based on desegregation and report back to the governor. John Sibley was chosen by governor to run the commission.Since they wanted to avoid arguements with the federal government, the governor passed a bill desegregating public schools and universities. -
Hamilton Holme and Charlayne Hunter to UGA
Holme and Hunter were the first black student to be enrolled at UGA. A federal judge ordered that the two students had to go to UGA. Because of it Vandiver ordered the school to close, but it never did becasue a federal judge revesed the governor's decision. -
Albany Movement
it was a movement formed in Albany, Georgia on November 17, 1961 to summer of 1962. it was the first large movement to have a goal to desegregate an entire community. Martin Luther King Jr. was involved and the movement resulted in over 1,000 African Americans going to jail in Albany and close rural counties. The movement was important because the King's lessons he learned and his involvement. However Albany failed, but after Birmingham was a success -
March on Washington
Over 200 thousand Americans met at Washington, D.C., and it was called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was organized by many civil rights and religious groups. it was an important moment in the civil rights movement. The march was a success. Also the “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin L. King Jr. was presented there for racial justice and equality. -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights ActCivil Right Act President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a law desegregating public schools. However it was first introduced by John F. Kennedy -
Lester Maddox
He was elected governor og Georgia in 1966. Many thought he opposed segregation but he did not. He put some African Americans in government positions and had prison reforms, however he did fight against the civil rights ideas of Democrats. -
Maynard Jackson as Atlanta Mayor
Maynard Jackson was the mayor of Atlant, the first African American mayor of a major south city. He was mayor for eight years then after Andrew Young, h returned for his third term. In his thrid term he worked with Young and helped bring the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young worked for human rights and was a politician. He worked with the SCLC, which was in Atlanta and was an organization for civil rights ran by Martin Luther King Jr.The citizenship schools that Young helped with taught civic leaders and also helped with the civil rights movement's democratic ethos. After MLK Jr. died he was a part of the U.S. House of Representatives and was first in African American in Congress since Reconstruction. He was the first African American U.N. Ambassador.
