Civil Rights Movement

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  • Election of Maynard Jackson

    was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.He became the first African-American mayor of Atlanta.

  • End of the white primary war

    The white primary which barred black participation in democratic primaries effectively disfranchised African Americans until its abolition

  • Brown v. Board of education court case ruling

    It was landmark United States Supreme court case in which the court declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white

  • Founding of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee(SNCC)

    It emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker held at Shaw University. SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the north to help raise funds to support SNCC's

  • The admission of Hamilton Holmes & Charlayne Hunter into UGA

    The first African Americans students admitted to the University Of Georgia.

  • The Albany Movement

    Was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany Georgia.

  • The March on Washington

    Represented a coalition of several civil rights organization all of which had diffrent approaches and agendas.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States[1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.