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1946 Governor's Race/End of White Primary
1946 Governors Race "So, there were three men who all said they were governor—-Three Governors." -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education In 1954, the Brown vs. Board of Education trial was held and the Supreme Court declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white students. The decision disproved the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponspored segragation in public schools. -
State Flag
State Flags of Georgia The state flag of georgia used from 1956-2001 featured a Confederate flag design, which many people considered offensive due to its past uses by the Confederacy and white supremacists. No written record shows what was said in the House and Senate the day the 1956 flag was adopted. -
Sibley Commision
Sibley Commision Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. decided public schools would desegregate or close down.The Sibley Commision was made in 1960 to desegregate schools, and began the end of a massive resistance towards desegregation. -
SNCC
SNCC The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s created in Georgia. -
Admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to UGA
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. -
Albany Movement
Albany Movement The Albany Movement was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have a goal of desgregating an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding counties. -
March on Washington
March on Washington "The Great March on Washington" called for civil and economics rights for African Americans. Thousands of Americans went to Washington on Tuesday, August 27, 1963. On Wednesday, August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech which called for an end to racism. MLK was mentored by Benjamin Mays.
The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations. -
Civil Rights Act
LBJ signs Civil Rights Act The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the work place and by facilities that served the public. -
Election of 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 following the term of Andrew Young.
