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Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speech(I Have A Dream)Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). However, Martin Luther is most known as one of the most prominent African American leaders in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
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Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Mays was a United States minister, educator, scholar, social activist. However, Mays was most known for being the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. -
1946 Governor's Race and End of the White Primary
Eugene Talmadge wins the election but died before taking office. The second place write-in candidate was his son Herman Talmadge; however, the was a Lieutenant Governor, M.E. Thompson, and Ellis Arnall, previous govenor, all declared they were the govenor "The Governors". Eventually, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Thompson was govenor until a special election in September 1948. Talmadge won the election.Primus King allowed to vote in the Democratic Primary ending the white primary. -
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Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, Sr., served as the 70th Governor of Georgia briefly in 1947 after his father Eugene Talmadge died while in office. He served as the Governor again from 1948 to 1955. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education in PBS' The Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court declares legal schoool segregation inconstitutional. "Seperate but equal" schools are unequal according to Supreme Court. -
The arrest of Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks - Mini BioRosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger when asked to do so. She was arrested for violating a city segregation statute. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
MLK elected President of the Montgomery Improvement Association
MLK Jr. was elected as president of the Montgomery Imrovement assosiation to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott ended a year later having integrated buses. -
1956 State Flag
In 1956, Georgia's General Assembly voted to add the Confederate Battle Flag to the state flag in protest to the Surpreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. -
SNCC meets for the first time
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee begain with a student meeting planned by ella baker at Shaw University. it was seperat from the SCLC and NAACP but it played major rolls in sit/ins, freedom rides, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlyne Hunter admitted to UGA
Governor Vandiver of Georgia had appointed the Sibley Commission to poll the state residents about their opinion of integration. Georgia was being forced by the federal government to comply with the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education. A federal judge ordered that Holmes and Hunter be admitted to UGA. Vandiver tried to close the school but finally got a bill passed including the findings of the Sibley Commission. This began the integration of Georgia public schools. -
Bill passes adopting the recomendations of the Sibley Commission
In 1960, Governor Vandiver was forced by the federal government to close the public schools or allow integration. He created in Sibley Commission to gather opinions of state residents regarding desegregation and report back to him. While 60% of the state residents did not support integration, Sibley's report offered ways to remain largely segregated. It wasn't voted on by the General Assembly because Vandiver had to introduce it as part of bill to avoid a showdown with the federal government. -
Andrew Young's Civil Rights Leaderships
Young left his position as pastor to work with the SCLC, organized by Martin Luther King Jr. He became a helper to Martin Luther King Jr. and then rose to the executive dictatorship of the SCLC. He helped in organizing voter regestration and desegregation campaigns in Albany. -
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The Albany Movement
Members from the SNCC, NAACP, Ministerial Alliance, Fed. of Women's Clubs, and Negro Voters League joined to challenge ALL segregation and descrimination in Albany. They got large groups together in protest; however, Albany's police chief Laurie Prichett was smart and did not respond with brutality or get negative publicity. MLK also helped the cause but moved on from Albany after his third arrest on Aug. 10, 1962. Said that they didn't meet their goals but learned to focus on a single facet. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March - PreviewMore than 200,000 demonstration participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speach during a day of speeches and demonstration, The march successfully moved President John F. Kennedy to propse a strong federal rights bill to Congress. Groups there to support the march included the NAACP, SNC, Nat'l Urban League, Nat'l Catholic Conference, National Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and United Auto Workers. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 is enacted
Civil Rights Act (1964)President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. The Civil Right Act said it was unlawful to discriminate based on race, color, religion sex, or national origin. It removed descrimination from voter registration and required integration in public schools, at the workplace, and at facilities supported by taxpayers (public places). Congress took it upon themselves to enforce the Act because of its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws (14th Amendment). -
Lester Maddox fights desegregation at the Pickrick
Maddox and his supporters kept three blacks from eating at his restaurant as they tested the Civil Rights Act. They kept them out using axes but eventually decided to close his restaurant rather than desegregate. -
Lester Maddox becomes Governor of Georgia
Lester Maddox, riding his popularity with white Georgians following his stand at his restaurant the Pickrick, ran for governor. He won the Democratic Party nomination and ran against Republican Howard Callaway. Although Calloway won the popular vote he did not have a majority and the Georgia Assembly appointed Maddox. Although he was a racist, he was a popular governor even with blacks. -
Maynard Jackson
Jackson was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973. He was the first Arican American to the mayor of a major city in the south. He served for eight years and returned for a third term in 1990.
