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Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Mays was the president of Morehouse college. There, he mentored Martin Luther King Jr. about peacful protests, including Gandhi's ways of protesting. -
1946 Governor's Race
Three Governor's Controversy vide
In 1946, blacks were given the right to vote. This was also the year that the Three Governor's Crisis began. Melvin Thompson, Ellis Arnall, and Herman Talmadge claimed to be governor after the death of Eugene Talmadge. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge was the governor of Georgia in the beginning of 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. He was the son of Eugene Talmadge, and he claimed to be governor in the Three Governor's Crisis. He, like his father, was a white supremacist, and avoided all opportunities to integrate pubic schools. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This case allowed for "seperate but equal" public facilities, which included public schools. It was called by the United States Supreme Court, and was an event that started the Civil Rights Movement. -
Sibley Commision
The Georgia Legislature asked the white citizens what they thought about the Brown v. Board of Education, and the following were the results. Sixty percent of the whites said that they would rather shut down the schools than integrate them. -
MLK
MLK worked against racial discrimination by having peaceful protests. He is most famous for his "I have a dream speech." He started to get attention for his actions all over the counrty in 1955. He was from Georgia, and he even won a noble peace prize for his protests in 1964. -
1956 State Flag
This new flag for Georgia was made to intimidate blacks. The Georgia Legislatures were not happy with the Brown v. Board of Education event, so they brought the Confederate flag as a way of intimidation for the blacks. -
SNCC
The SNCC was one of the major organizations in the Civil Rights Movement. It was an organization in which blacks protested against segregation by having lunch sit-ins, freedom rides, etc. Atlanta was the main center in which protests were held. -
Hamilton Holmes/ Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes is known for desegregating Georgia's Universities.
Charlayne Hunter was one of the first African American students in UGA. In the beginning, they both were denied admission to UGA, but they soon got permission from the Federal Court saying that they were allowed in. -
Albany Movement
Albany Movement video
Members of the SNCC tried to organize peaceful protests, against segregation, in this event. Martin Luther King Jr. was also involved in this movement along with may other organizations, including the SCLC. The event ended in 1962 because many Africans had gotten arrested, and no good seemed to come out of it. -
March on Washington
This event took place in the United States' capitol. It was when over 200,000 people gathered to fight, peacfully, for African American social and political rights. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream speech" took place at this event. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964 video The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964 and was propsed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963. It was a law passed that ended segregation, and it stopped people from giving jobs based on color, race, religion etc. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox started a restaurant, with his wife, in 1947. Soon after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, many African Americans started to come to his restaurant as guests. He was a racist so he fought them off whenever they tried to come into his restaurant. He was not completely horrible though, as he gave opportunities to blacks in office. He was also elected as the lietenant governor of GA in 1971. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young was the first African American Congressman from Georgia since the Reconstruction period. He had a big hand in bringing the Olympics to Georgia, and he was also a civil rights leader with Martin Luther King Jr. -
Maynard Jackson
Maynard jackson
Maynard Jackson was the first African American mayor of Atlanta. He is also known for his role in expanding the Atlanta airport.
