Civil Rights Movement Timeline

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  • Benjamin Mays

    Benjamin Mays
    Benjamin Mays Benjamin Mays was an african american who was a minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. He also happened to be a very important mentor to the Martin Luther King Junior.

  • Herman Talmadge

    Herman Talmadge Son of Eugene Talmadge, served as Georgia's governor for a breif time in 1947 and then again in 1948 to 1954.

  • Martin Luther King Jr

    Martin Luther King Jr
    Martin Luther King Jr Martin Luther King Junior, a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

  • Andrew Young

    Andrew Young Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been in great measure responsible for the development of Atlanta's reputation as an international city.

  • Three Governor's Controversy

    Three Governor's Controversy When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son Herman Talmadge as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governor, and the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, refused to leave office.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act The Civil Rights Movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality.

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education This unanimous decision handed down by the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954, ended federal tolerance of racial segregation.

  • 1956 State flag

    1956 State flag
    http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/file/8079 Georgia's General Assembly ratified the addition of the Confederate Battle Flag to the state flag in 1956 as a backlash to the Brown v. Board of Education decisions, which federally imposed integration of public schools.

  • Sibley Comission

    Sibley Comission Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor. The report issued by the Sibley Commission laid the foundation for the end of massive resistance to desegregation in the state and helped avoid a showdown between Vandiver and the federal government.

  • SNCC

    http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/student-nonviolent-coordinating-committee-sncc SNCC was a key organization in the civil rights movement. SNCC sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism.

  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault

    Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Holmes-Gault desegreagated the University of Georgia in 1961.

  • Albany Movement

    Albany Movement
    Albany Movement 1,000 african americans were arrested and in the end they're were no more protesters because they were all in jail.

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    March on Washington Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream speech" on the same day he led he march.

  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox
    Lester Maddox Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, Maddox surprised many by serving as an able and unquestionably colorful chief executive.

  • Maynard Jackson

    Maynard Jackson Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990.