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Benjamin Mays
<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9V6Yv8DY14' >Benjamin Mays Lifetime Benjamin Mays began his civil rights career at the YMCA in 1933. He was an amazing civil rights leader and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. He was also an outstanding leader for the NAACP and the YMCA. -
African Americans Can Vote!
Herman Talmadge was against this and called a session with the state legislature to stop these laws from going into play. -
Georgia Has Three Governors (Melvin Thomson, Ellis Arnall, Herman Talmadge)
Herman Talmadge talking about the Three Governor's controversyWhen Georgia updated their constitution they made unclear who would be the governor now. It stated that the LT governor would be the one who took office if something were to happen to the governor. Although the governor had been elected, he died the next month before he ever took office. The previous governor thought that he was governor, so did the governor's son because he recieved write in votes, but the lieutenant governor aswell thought he was the governor because of the constitution. -
Herman Talmadge elected governor
Herman Talmadge Biography
Herman Talmadge was first elected for governor. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Oliver Brown was the father of a girl who wasn't getting a fair education compared to the white children, so he filed against the board of education for not holding the " Seperate but Equal" policy to their schools from the Plessy v. Ferguson court ruling. The supreme court ruled that schools should no longer be segregated and recieve equal education as everyone else, upholding the fourteenth amendment. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr. first began his career as a civil rights activist after Rosa Parks had sat in a white persons spot on a segregated bus. He and many others followed her example and created a bus boycott which led to the first integrated bus. He then joined the Albany movement and took nonviolent acts to gain civil rights. He also led the very important March on Washington. He was a very famous and inspiring leader. -
Georgia Flag
Quiz on GA state flag
In 1956 Georgia adopted their new state flag, but there was one problem. The flag was the Confederate's battle flag and to some citizens represented white supremacy. -
Sibley Commission
Video on Desegregation of Schools
The Sibley commission arranged base to stop fighting desegregation.They dealt with the problem of whites closing schools because they did not want to integrate after the Brown v. Board of Education case. -
The First Black Students Went to UGA
Hamiltion Holmes and Charlayne Hunter went to UGA as the first African American students. Their entry was followed by riots and protests but after court orders they were able to walk the campus in peace. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young first entered his career into the civil rights movement when he quit his previous job as pastor in 1961, and became part of MLK Jr's civil rights organization. He worked closely with King and helped organize the Albany movement. -
Albany Movement Created
An alliance for desegragation in Albany, Georgia was formed to end all racial discrimination and desegragation in Georgia. People who were involved included NAACP and the SNCC. The leader of the orginaztion was -
Lester Maddox
Quiz on Everyone
Lester Maddox was considered very racist especially due to the event in which he had turned away black activists. There were photographs taken and spread across the country showing how he truly was. -
Maynard Jackson as Mayor of Atlanta
Maynard Jackson was the first African American to become mayor of a large southern city. He fixed the way African Americans were treated in the police department, government, and society.
