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Benjamin Mays
He was a leader in many organizations such as the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist and one of the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He organized many speeches, sit-ins, boycotts, and many other events in the movement. He is famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech that inspired many African Americans to fight for the equality of all. -
Benjanim Mays Becomes a Dean
Benjamin becomes a dean of the School of Religion at Howard University. For this he had to travel. Along his travels he met with Mahatma Gandhi which shared his ideas of getting freedom. These strageies would be later used in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Benjamin Mays at Morehouse
Benjamin Mays became the president at Morehouse college. While he was there he fundraised to give Morehouse the needed finanical support. He enhanced the structure and academics of the college by making it more efficient. He also became life long friends with Martin Luther King Jr. He greatly influenced King and the decisions he made in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The End of White Primary
After the ruling of Smith vs. Allwright the U.S. Supreme Court ruled white primary unconstitutional. Democrats in Georgia now had to allow African Americans to vote in their elections. They tried to get around this law by making the white primary a private club but Governor Ellis Arnall did not allow this. Thus came the end of white primary everywhere in the U.S. -
1946 Election
Eugene Talmadge was just elected governor in the last election. One month later he died. Three men thought they should be the governor. Ellis Arnall thought that he should be governor because he was governor before Talmadge and since there was no one to take his place he should step in. Herman Talmadge thought he should be governor because he had many written in ballots in the last election that were not counted. M.E.Thompson said he should become governor because he was the Lieutanant Governor. -
Herman the Governor
After the Three Governor Controversy Herman won the election and officially became governor. He enacted the first sales tax. This helped fund the public schools. But being a segragtionalist he resisted the intergragetion of these schools. He also attracted industries like the timber industry to Georgia. -
Brown v Board of Education
The NAACP took the case of segragation in schools to the Supreme Court. In Georgia's Supreme Court they sad there was no case because as long as white and black schools are equal it did not violate the fourteenth amendment. The fourteenth amendment states that, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The U.S. Supreme Court said that they weren't equal, so segragation was unconstitutional. -
Herman Talmadge is Elected
Herman Talmadge was elected to his first term in the U.S. senate as a Georgia's Junior Senator. Herman made it clear from the start that he was against the desegragation happening in the country. He secured his appointment of the Committe of Agriculture and Forestry. His main aim was to help the farmers (mostly white) of Georgia. He created the Food- Stamp Program. He also supports a balanced budget always. In this time his is also apart of the Senate Financies Comittee. -
1956 State Flag
The General Assembly wanted to change the state flag. Instead of having three stripes as the pre-1956 State Flag did, they wanted to put the Confederate flag there. The flag was a way of telling the country that Georgia is going to fight for what they believe in, unequality. The bill flew through the legislature as everyone approved of it. Many people such as Governor Zell Miller tried to get the legislature to return the state flag to the pre-1956 State Flag, but did not succeed. -
Sibley Commission
The Sibley Commission was a General Assembly of Schools Committee that Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. created. He made John Sibley the head. The Sibley Commission gathered information about the citizen's views on desegragtion and how Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. should handle the situation. Citizens were given two choices. Vandiver was forced to make a desicion quick when the federal government presented him with a case. Vandiver made little changes toward desegragtion but segragation was intact. -
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Albany Movement
Martin Luther King Jr.,SNCC workers,and Albany citizens marched to desegragte Albany. King was arrested and jailed. He accepted bail only to find out that the white leadership refused to meet any of the movement's demands. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy chose jail over paying fines. The authority realized that they were trying to attract attention and an anonymous lawyer paid their fine. They were realeased against their will. This happened again. King thought of this as a fail. -
Hamilton Homes and Charalyne Hunter Go to University of Georgia
When Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr.was trying to figure out how to transition Georgia smoothly through intergration he was told by the federal government that he had to emitt Hamilton Homes and Charlayne Hunter into University of Georgia. After Hamilton Homes and Charayne Hunter had submitted many applications to go to UGA, but were denied each time. When it was brought to court the judge said they were denied acceptance because of the color of their skin. They had to be accepted them now. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young left his job as a pastor to join the SCLC. There he assisted in citizenship schools that educated mostly rural uneducated blacks. In these classes it would teach potential leaders in the organization nonviolent strageties. This encouraged people to vote and gave the Civil Rights Movement democratic ethics. Young became the director of the SCLC. He also organized voter registeration and desegragation in Georgia, Alabama, and Washington. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was an event where 200, 000 people gathered to march for freedom. After the New Deal blacks were still not treated equally as they were the least help race. 200,000 people of different ages, social classes, at Lincoln memorial to listen to inspirational speeches, songs, prayers. -
SNCC
This is the date that SNCC took a violent turn. The SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordination Committee) was an organization aimed at young African Americans. It was trying to get this group more involved in the Civil Rights Movement. The SNCC participated in many Freedom Rides on one of them a member was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Under the new elected head of the SNCC, Stokely Carmichael, members were now using violence for "self- defense". under his leadership there were many fires from riots. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the ending of segrargation in public places and discrimination based on the race, color, religion, gender, or national origin of a person. It was proposed by president John F. Kennedy but was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Congress later expanded on this by passig later acts such as the Voting Act of 1965. -
Lester Maddox
Many thought that Lester Maddox would bring Georgia back to the segragtion times. But he proved people wrong. As governor Maddox was progressive on racial matters. He made prision reforms as the prisonment of Afrcan Americans was a problem. He apppinted more African American officials than all the previous Georgia governors combined. He appointed the first black officer in the Georgia State Patrol and the first black official to the state Board of Corrections. -
Maynard Jackson as Mayor
In the 1973 election Maynard Jackson was the first black mayor of a large sounthern city. He beat out a well liked liberal caucasian Sam Massell. He ensured that more black businesses had municipal contracts. He changed the policie departments so that were be less discrimanation on blacks and to help black policie rise in the ranks.
