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Civil Rights Movement
Picture sourceMany black activists began to protest in the streets demanding that the "white's only" sections become demolished due to segregation of races. Before the protests began, blacks in Georgia were forced into the rural areas that were left behind by whites who have moved else where. As the election began, blacks weren't given the right to vote for the democratic party, even though black registration increased rapidly, the rates fro registration were the highest the south has ever recieved. -
Benjamin Mays
VideoPicture Source Benjamin Mays was an African American activist, minister, and educator. He worked through the Morehouse College and became the president of education. Through that school, he rasied an abundance of money for fund-raising for African Americans. He was a great mentor to MLK. -
Governor's Race at the end of White Supremecy
Picture Source Talmadge won the election in 1946, he claimed the results were to be a "question of white supremecy". Arnall was the other candidate and he was against white supremecy. But, not earning the votes from the farmers in the rural areas costed him his vision to end segregation. The picture to the side is of Eugene Talmadge. -
Herman Talmadge, Ellis Arnall, and Eugene Talmadge
Herman Talmadge InterviewEugene Talmadge had been reelected again in 1946 with a large advantage from the county unit system. Later, he passed away and next in line was Ellis Arnall, but he didn't get to be in office due to the suspicious write in of Talmadge's son, Herman. Herman never ran for office, there was a secret write in by the citizens. Talmadge successfully increased the people supporting white supremecy. Having Talmadge in office only increased segregation in the community. -
Brown VS Board of Education
The Supreme Court claimed segregation in school unconstitutional, banning it. Most schools reacted the same way, threatening to close their school if blacks are given the right to attend their school. In 1956, Georgia still refused to accept the desegregation in schools, so the General Assembly took away funds and sent people to GA to ask if they support desegregation in schools. They said they'd rather have no schools than a mixed school. So, public schools belittled. -
GA State Flag
Picture SourceMany Georgians in Congress claimed the flag should be the confederate flag. The flag was made and approved by secretary of state in the 1920's. But later was changed to the old battle flag. In the 1960's the battle flag was denied as the state flag as it was claimed to be "unproper" for a state flag. The new state flag is the first that had been approved by the secretay of state. The flag to the side is the original flag from 1956. -
Sibley Commission
Picture SourceThis was an organization of the General Assembly Committee on Schools, which was later known as the Sibley Commission. The committee discussed issues that involved desegregation. John Sibley was head of the commission. The people voted to keep total segregation in public schools and other public places. After months of argument, on January 31st, desegregation spread to schools, making "mixed" schools the next fall. -
GA in Civil Rights Movement (1960's-1970's)
Civil Rights Protests In Streets
Georgia has the largest participation of desegregation out of all southern states. The registration rates of black voters were the highest they've ever been. MLK led the Albany Movement which consisted of blacks, formerly in jail due to their race and other black citizens, wanting to end the white supremecy in government. But still, Georgians demanded racial equality. -
Hunter and Holmes and UGA
Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes were the first two black men to desegreate UGA. Both of them were denied admission to UGA because of their race. These boys took their case to court and won. On Jan. 9th, they arrived, being the first two black men on campus at UGA. They were hated by whites and their dorm was smashed by bricks. Hunter graduated in 1963 and became a journalist for the New Yorker Magazine. Holmes graduated in 1963 and coninued his career at Emory. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Speech VideoPicture Source MLK led a movement called the Albany Movement to stop desegregation during the governor campaign. Unfortunetly, they were too late, and desegregation couldn't be spread throughout entire city in time. Rosa Parks had a great influence on his support for the rights of blacks. He fought for their freedom on the bus in court. In, 1964, MLK exposed his "I have a dream" speech to the public. Shortly after, King held a march in Selma as a protest against segregation. MLK held many public protests. -
Andrew Young
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He began as a pastor until the civil rights and started taking part in protests for blacks. He helped greatly with citizenship in schools (SCLC) and gained freedom for blacks in education systems. He helped greatly with desegregation in schools. HOR in 1972. 1981 elected mayor through 1985. -
Albany Movement
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The goal was the have desegregation of an entire committee of people, but it resulted with over 1,000 blacks in jail. MLK being one of the arrested black men, he was still intrigued by the movement after jail. -
March on Washington
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Longest gathering in the civil rights movement with over 250,000 people in Washington D.C. -
Civil Rights Act
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This was the official document making it legal for all blacks and whites to have the same and equal treatment, ending the protesting era. -
SNCC
VideoThe Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee created civil rights programs for students. They mainly provided for the students, such as lunches. SNCC held large protests with students that demanded equality. Many of them were held at places where the lunch was held, saying that they deserved just as great of quality of lunches as the whites do. In 1966, John Lewis (a black main) took head chair in this organization. Lewis developed projects to help students. SNCC called for "black power" which -
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gave confidence to people who were seperated by races. Violence was only used for self defense after the "black power" was established, before, no violence was encouraged. -
Lester Maddox
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Worked with Hartsfield. Maddox became governor in 1968 as he worked with MLK to encouraging blacks to stop. He feared greatly of more riots. -
Maynard Jackson
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Mayor of Atlanta. Served for three terms (8 years) following Andrew Young. Economy boomed due to Young being the previous president and getting ATL back on track. He worked with Young a lot as well as Ivan Allen JR. He contributed to the airport and the 1996 Olympic Games.
