civil rights

By williegang

  • the end of white primary in GA

    The 1944 case of Smith vs. Allwright was the Supreme Court decision that ruled the Texas White Primary was unconstitutional.

  • the 1946 governor's race

    Melvin Thompson, Herman Talmadge, & Ellis Arnall are the three governors of the 1946 governor's race. Eugene Talmadge was elected governor in November, 1946, but died the next month. 1946 was a beginning for African-Americans, they could vote for Governor. No one had thought to stipulate what happens if the governor-elect dies before taking office. Speaking legally, there has to be sometype of succession, but the constitution was quiet on the issue. A legal mess resulted.

  • Brown v. Board Of Eductation

    which ended legal segregation in public schools. In December, 1952, the U.S. Supreme Court had on its docket cases from Kansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia, all of which challenged the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools. The U.S. Supreme Court had consolidated these five cases under one name, Oliver Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka

  • SNCC

    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960,by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina.

  • Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes

    Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first African American students admitted to the University of Georgia, arrived on campus to register for classes on January 9, 1961.

  • The Albany Movement

    It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties. Martin Luther King Jr played a big role in this.

  • the march on Washington

    The 1963 March on Washington attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. Participants walked down Constitution and Independence avenues, then — 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed — gathered before the Lincoln Monument for speeches, songs, and prayer. Televised live to an audience of millions, the march provided dramatic moments, most memorably the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Ha

  • the civil rights act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's benchmark civil rights legislation, and it continues to resonate in America. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Passage of the Act ended the application of "Jim Crow" laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. The Civil Ri

  • election of marynard jackson

    Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973