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Benjamin Mays
Benjamin MaysBenjamin Mays became the president of Morhouse College and also the mentor of Martin Luther King Jr.
He taught him nonviolent movements, like what Gandhi did.
After his retirement in 1967 from Morehouse, Mays remained active in several social and political organizations of prominence and was in demand as a speaker and lecturer. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge InterviewHerman Talmadge was governor for 8 years and was part of the 3 Governors Controversy. He impacted the states public educationn system. -
1956 State Flag
State flagJohn Sammons Bell began a campaign to substitute the square Confederate battle flag for the red and white bars on Georgia's state flag.
Georgia's General Assembly ratified the addition of the Confederate Battle Flag to the state flag in 1956 -
Sibley Commission
60 percent of witnesses favored total segregation. On April 28, 1960, Sibley, ignoring the results of the hearings, presented the commission's report to state leaders, in which he recommended accepting Hooper's decision while offering several meas -
Andrew Young
Politician, human rights activist, and businessman
He wrote in his 1996 autobiography
Became a trusted aide to Martin Luther King Jr.
Assisted in the organization of "citizenship schools" for the SCLC, workshops that taught nonviolent organizing strategies to local people whom members of the organization had identified as potential leaders. -
SNCC
SNCCThe Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the key
organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Organized freedom rides and sitins
Was successful until it ended because they were afraid they would become violent. -
The Albany Movement
Albany Movement was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties. -
March on Washington
Civil rights movement staged with as many as 250,000 participants at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C -
Lester Maddox
In 1949 Maddox ran the first of his "Pickrick Says" advertisements in the Atlanta Journal.
As governor he backed significant prison reform, an issue popular with many of the state's African Americans. He appointed more African Americans to government positions than all previous Georgia governors combined, including the first black officer in the Georgia State Patrol and the first black official to the state Board of Corrections. -
Manyard Jackson as Mayor of Atlanta
Manyard JacksonThe first African American Governor of Georgia and first to serve as mayor of a major southern city.
He worked closely with Young, Atlanta Olympics to bring the 1996 Olympic Games to Atlanta.
