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NAACP Founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People worked to help black people into equality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQswadO_3U -
Woodrow Wilson becomes President
After Woodrow Wilson got elected, he immediately took action in re-segregating government agencies and other businesses that have been integrated for more that 50 years. -
Back-to-Africa Movement starts
Marcus Garvey revived the back-to-africa movement because the black population of the US high and the blacks moved to northern cities where they were persecuted by whites. -
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World War II
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Benjamin Mays becomes president of Morehouse College
After Benjamin Mays became president, his influence was most powerful as rose to national prominence. His most famous student, Martin Luther King Jr., became a national figure for civil rights too. -
Bell Aircraft Production Begins
In spring of 1943, Bell aircraft was supplying the Air Force with lots of B-29 bombers. This manufacturing site created 28,158 jobs. Among the workers, 8 percent were African American (2250) and 37 percent were women(10800). -
1946 Governor's Race/Three Governor's Controversy
Eugene Talmadge dies right before he gets sworn into office, leading to a controversy over who will be governor. The lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson insisted he be governor, but the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, also insisted he be governor. The General Assembly also decided that Herman should be governor. These things caused a controversy. The 1946 Governor's race is also known as the "three governors controversy". -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Supreme Court decided in a unanimous decision that separate but equal in schools is unconstitutional. This forced schools ton integrate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak -
Rosa Parks Refuses to Move to Colored Part of Bus
Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, one day refused to move to the colored section of the bus. She was then arrested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8A9gvb5Fh0 -
1956 State Flag
In 1956, John Sammos Bell, the Atlanta Attorney, began a campaign to change the red square into the Confederate battle flag. -
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC was one of the civil rights organizations of the time that started from the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro and Nashville. They ended up organizing voter registration drives all over the South, especially in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. -
Sibley Commission
Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver, Jr. had to make a decision whether to close public schools or to desegregate them. He directed the Georgia Assembly to make a committee. John Sibley, the leader of the commission, believed in desegregation and that decision was made. -
Magnolia Tea Room Sit-in w/ Dr King
Atlanta University and Morehouse College requested that Dr. King participate in the lunch sit-in. A sit-in was where civil rights activists refuse to move from a segregated place. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
These people were the first blacks to attend UGA. Hamilton Holmes then went on to be the first black to go to Emory University. -
Andrew Young Helps with Civil Rights
Andrew Young went to work for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
Freedom Rides Depart from Washington D.C.
People of all color got together to ride on buses from the north down to the deep south in hopes of making bus segregation unconstitutional.
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Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was started from local activists of SNCC and NAACP. They worked to desegregate their entire community. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was the largest political rally for human rights in all of US history. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of Lincoln Memorial to put a end to racism. https://archive.org/details/MLKDream -
US Supreme Court struck down on segregation
After the US Supreme court declared segregation unconstitutional, Herman Talmadge was among the critics that spoke out the most. He followed the white supremacist idea of his father Eugene Talmadge -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a civil rights legislation ending discrimination against color, gender, religion, and race. It guaranteed all citizens due process of law and protection of voting rights by the 15th amendment. -
Lester Maddox sworn into office as governor of Georgia
Lester Maddox was a segregationist who strongly opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He also greatly increased funding for University of Georgia. -
Martin Luther King Jr Assasinated
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Election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta
Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as a mayor of Atlanta. He worked with Andrew Young to help bring the Olympics to Atlanta in 1996.
