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Governor's Race/ End of White Primary
It forced Georgia to allow African-Americans to vote in the Democratic primary,which made the Democratic primary want to become a private club. Ellis Arnell prevented this from happening and that was the end of White primary in Georgia. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge is elected as governor of Georgia. He was against civil rights legislation, but he began to reach out to black voters. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin mays was a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. and played a large part in the leadershipi role of several significant national and international organizations. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs Board of Ed is decidedA U.S. Surpreme Court Case that involved Oliver Brown and the Board of Education in Kansas. The court ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional and ended all segregation in schools. -
Georgia Changes their State Flag
Georgia changes their state flag to incorporate the Confederacy flag. They did ths because it showed that Georgia would intend to uphold for what it stood for, will stand for, and will fight for. -
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
They coordinated sit-ins in college towns, supported thier leaders and publicized their activities. A sit-in is where black people went into public places where they were refused service and just sat there protesting segregation. -
Sibley Commission
The commission was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting it back to the governor. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Video of Holmes and Hunter at UGAThey were the first African Americans let into UGA. At first the university would not let them in. The university said that they would have been let in already if it weren't for their race and color. After taking the university to court, the two were let into the university. -
Andrew Young
He worked with the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), which was an Alanta based civil rghts organization led by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Albany Movement
JFK Albany Movement SpeechThe first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have its goal the desegregation of a whole communtity, and it resulted in the jailing of over 1,000 African Americans in Albany and in surrounding counties. -
March on Washington
I Have a Dream Speech It was a Washington D.C. that was a protest on segregation. There were 200,000 people that marched and they were led by lots of different civil rights and religious groups. At the end of the march, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream Speech." -
Civil Rights Act
Document of Civil Rights Act This act prohibited discrimination in public places provided for the integegration of schools and other public facilities, and made employee discrimination illegal. -
Lester Maddox
He was the state's most unlikely governor and brought widespred dissatisfaction with desegregation. -
Maynard Jackson as Atlanta Mayor
He was the first African American to serve as the mayor of a major southern city.
