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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15th, 1929. His family was a very religous one, being that his grandfather, his father, and himself being pastors for a church. He allways had a vision for the civil rights of his race, so he became a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people. He was one of the most influential people during the civil rights movement. He was agreat leader, but was assasinated on a porch of a motel on April 4th, 1968. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young, a politician, human rights activist, and businessman, was born March 12th,1932. He became active in the Civil Rights Movement, working with [Martin Luther King Jr.]( www.bing.com/videos/search?q=andrew+young+video_FORM=VIRE8 ) in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Entering politics, Young served in Congress, was the first African-American ambassador to the United Nations and became mayor of Atlanta. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. -
Benjamin Mays
In 1940 Mays became the president of Morehouse College. His most famous student at Morehouse was Martin Luther King Jr. During King's years as an undergraduate at Morehouse in the mid-1940s, the two developed a close relationship that continued until King's death. Mays had strong beleifs in two subjects: the dignity of all human beings and the incompatibility of American democratic ideals with American social practice became vital strains in the language of King and the civil rights movement. -
1946 governers race
It was a controversy because there were three "governers", because Ellis Arnall, the outgoing governor, figured he was still governor because there was no one to replace him.Herman Talmadge thought he should be governor because he had received write-in votes during the ’46 election.M. E. Thompson was elected Lieutenant Governor so he felt the office of governor fell to him because the Georgia constitution stipulated he would become the chief executive upon the death of the governor. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, son of eugene talmadge, served as govenrner for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980. He was a white supremisist, and dispised the Civil Rights movement. He was also part of the infamous three governers controversy. He was eventually sworn in as governer, but later it was ruled unconstitutuonal and he vacated office. -
Brown V. Board of Education
In Topeka, Kansas, there was a black girl that had to cross dangerous railroads to get to her segregated school, so her parents [filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education,](www.bing.com/videos/search?q=brown+vs+boe+video_FORM=VIRE4 ) saying it violated the 14th admendment and it carried all the way to the Supreme court, and was ruled unconstitutional to segregate. -
1956 state flag
The state flag used from 1956 to 2001 featured a Confederate Battle Flag, which some residents found offensive due to its previous use by the Confederate States of America and its temporary use as a symbol by various white supremacy groups. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities.Over the next decade, civil rights activism moved beyond lunch counter sit-ins. In this violently changing political climate, SNCC struggled to define its purpose as it fought white oppression. Famous black leaders came out of this orginization. -
Sibley Commission
The Sibley Commission was the General Assembly Committee on Schools. It was commonly known as the Sibley Commissiion. They were created because of federal orders to desegregate schools or to close them, so they were in charge to gather state residents belifs regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor. The report reported by the Sibley Commission laid the foundation for the end of massive tension to desegregation in the state. In the end GA schools were desegregated. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to UGA
Holmes and Hunter applied to UGA for the fall 1959 quarter but were denied.The students resubmitted their applications each new quarter, but each time they were rejected for reasons usually related to space or application procedures. A full trial on the subject was held and On January 6, 1961, Judge William Bootle issued his ruling, stating that Holmes and Hunter "would have already been admitted had it not been for their race and color." As a result UGA immediately admitted the two. -
Albany movement
King came to[ Albany](www.bing.com/videos/search?q=albany+movement+video+youtube_FORM=VIRE5 ) to carry on the effort to desegregate the city. He brought in his Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff to coordinate the campaign. He had a formidable opponent in Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett. Pritchett practiced the nonviolence that King preached, ordering his officers to avoid brutality, at least when the TV cameras and news reporters were present. Prepared for the waves of marchers King encouraged, Pritchett had them arrested and sent to jails. -
March on Washington
Nobody was sure how many people would turn up for the demonstration in Washington, D.C. Some travelling from the South were harrassed and threatened. But on August 28, 1963, an estimated quarter of a million people—about a quarter of whom were white—marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, in what turned out to be both a protest and a communal celebration. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous ["I have a dream"](www.bing.com/videos/search?q=i+have+a+dream+speech_FORM=VIRE2 ) speech at this event. -
Civil Rights Act
The civil rights act was created April 11 1964. The provisions of this civil rights act forbid discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. In the final act, it made it unlawful for an employer to "fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions or privileges or employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or nationality. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox was famous, or more infamous back then, for being the governer of Gerogia. He started off with some false starts, losing two mayoral races and an attempt to become Lt. Governor, but finally became governer in 1967. He became infamous when a picture of him weilding an axe at blacks was taken in front of his restraunt in 1964. So when he became governer of Georgia, many people expected him to be a white supremisist. But he appointed more blacks in office than all the other governers.
