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lester maddox
was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
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Andrew Young
American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta -
the election of 1946 and the "3 Governors Controversy"
it began with the death of governor-elect Eugene Talmadge.his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947 -
brown v. board of education
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case. in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
state flag
replaced the three horizontal red-white-red stripes with the Confederate Battle Flag. Efforts have been made to revert to the old flag, but these have not succeeded. Apparently the Atlanta Airport Authority decided to make their opinions known in a very visible way.
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Formation of SNCC and the integration of Woolworth’s lunch counter
In 1960 four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro walked into the F. W. Woolworth store and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. They were refused service, but they stayed until closing time. The next morning they came with twenty-five more students. On the third day, sixty-three students joined the sit-in. On the following day, the students were joined by three white female students from the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes to UGA
Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities. One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later. -
Albany Movement
local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). -
Martin Luther King Jr i have a dream speech
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March on Washington
more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized bu civil right and religous groups. the " I have a dream" speach was givin at th the march on washington. -
civil rights act
which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Voting Rights Act
signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. -
Election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta
first african american mayor in a major sothern state. he higherd more black police officers. served three terms. -
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Benjamin Mays
Perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. He was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States
