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Benjamin Mays
Mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. and was also figure during the civil right movement before the big events started happening. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation in schools. A father wanted his daughter to be able to go to good schools like the white kids did and sued. This case went all they way up to the supreme court. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks disobeyed the bus driver to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. She was put in jail for sitting on the bus while a white person was standing eventhough he could have sat anywhere else on the bus because none of the sears in the white section were taken.. -
Confederate Flag
In 1955 a group of men proposed changing the flag with a red and white stripe pattern covering 2/3 of it with a square section of the conferderete flag. At first this was only met by a couple people, but when the verdict for Board v Brown v. Board of Education came through it sailed through. People were upset about this, but not until later when they started paying attention to the state flag and thought it was not appropriate. In 2003 a new flag was adopted and is the current one we have. -
Sibley Commision
Governor Earnest Vandiver Jr. had to decide betweem two things. He could close all the public schools or he could integrate the schools. George Busbee later made a general assembly for schools which was commonly refered to as teh Sibley Commision -
Albany Movement
The SNCC organized the protest and all planned to get arrested. Once they all got arrested they realized there was nobody left to protest. The protest wasn't a success or failure because they learned from their mistakes and in later demonstrations left protestors to not get arrested. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. and over 100,000 of his followers marched to Washington D.C., they got there on August 28th, 1963. People joined the group of followers on the way to Washington D.C. and the group kept getting larger in size. Once they got there, Dr. King gave his famous "I Have a Dream Speech". -
1964 Governor's Race
After the death of Eugene Talmadge, three men fought over the role of governor. Ellis Arnall, Herman Talmadge, and teh lieutenant governor all fought over the role of governor. After they debated they decided to have a vote. Ellis Arnall won the vote but later someone came with a box of uncounted for balletts that had Herman Taldmadge's name on it so he became the governor. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Forbid anyone to descriminate people because of their gender or race in their hiriing, promoting, and firing. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Denied and states to deny any us citizen to vote because of their race or because of their color.
