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End of the white primary in Georgia
The white primary in Georgia end in 1944. Any non-White voter was prohibited from participating. The use of white primaries were first used by Southern Democratic Parties in the late 19th century. -
The governor's race.
Eugene Talmadge was elected governor in November,1946, but he died the next month. No one had thought to stipulate what happens if the governor-elect dies before taking office. Legally speaking, there has to be some sort of succession, but the constitution was silent on the issue. A legal “mess” resulted. -
Brown v. Board of education court case ruling
Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African-American girl, had been denied permission to attend an elementary school only five blocks from her home in Topeka, Kansas.Attorneys for Topeka argued that the separate schools for nonwhites in Topeka were equal in every way, and were in complete conformity with the Plessy standard. -
founding of student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
was one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary.Final SNCC legacy is the destruction of the psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage; SNCC helped break th -
The admission of Hamilton Holmes & Charlayne Hunter into UGA.
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.Protests and riots by white students who were opposed to the university's desegregation resulted in a temporary suspension for Hunter and Holmes, but the two soon returned to campus after a series of court orders and began their studies. Both graduated in 1963. -
The Albany Movement.
The organization was led by William G. Anderson, a local black Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.The Albany Movement mobilized thousands of citizens and attracted nationwide attention but failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition. However, it was credited as a key lesson in strategy and tactics for the national civil rights movement.[1] -
The march on Washington.
was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history.The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, Under the theme "jobs, and freedom.Estimates of the number of participants varied from 200,000 to 300,000. Observers estimated that 75–80% of the marchers were black and the rest were white and non-black minorities. -
The civil Rights Act of 1964
was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations"). -
The election of Maynard Jackson.
Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city.Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was born on March 23, 1938, in Dallas, Texas, where his father, Maynard H. Jackson Sr., was a minister. The family moved to Atlanta in 1945, when Maynard Sr. took the pastorship at Friendship Baptist Church. Maynard Jr.'s Atlanta roots ran deep.