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Benjamin Mays
He was elected President of Morehouse College in Atlanta in the year 1940, and served until 1967. His most famous student was Martin Luther King Jr. Before the civil rights movement he strongly spoke out against segregtation. He was also a member of the NAACP. -
Governor's Race/End of the White Primary
In 1946 it was declared that the Democratic white primary
in Georgia was an unconstitutional violation of the 14th
Amendment. In November 1946, Eugene Talmadge was elected for a fourth term as governor,but died before taking office. And the three men in line for the position were in a fight for it. Herman Talmage was one of the men, and was the son of Eugene Talmadge. Another was Ellis Arnall, who was the current Governor and the last was Melvin E. Thompson the Lieutenant Governor. -
Herman Talmage
Herman Talmage was the son of Eugene Talmage who was a previous governor of Georgia. He followed in his father's footsteps to become governor. He first became governor in January of 1947, but two months later had to vacate the office after the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the legislature had acted in an unconstitutional manner. But he easily won the position of governor from 1948 to 1954 and was a U.S. Senator from 1956 to 1980. He was a big opponent of civil rights legislation. -
Brown v. Board of Education
'http://www.history.com/speeches/speeches-brown-v-board-of-education-ruling#speeches-brown-v-board-of-education-ruling' >video-</a>
Linda Brown's family went to the Supreme Court and claimed that the schools were separate but not equal. They won the coourt case and schools slowly started to become integrated because they ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. -
State Flag
GA changed its state flag to include the Confederate battle
flag in it, to demonstrate it’s disagreement with the decision of the Brown v. Board of Education were seperate but equal was ruled unconstitutional. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2010_spr/bond.htm' >SNCC</a>
The SNCC was when several students adopted Dr. King’s idea of non-violent protest and formed the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). A leader of the SNCC was Georgian Julian Bond who was later elected to the
U.S. Senate for Georgia. The SNCC participated in sit-ins at lunch counters and later included voter registration
in the South. -
Sibley Commission
Was a commission to ask Georgians how they felt
about the matter of Brown v. Board of Education. It was led by an influential Atlanta banker, John Sibley. After seeing results, Georgia's community had mixed thoughts. So in result Sibley recommended that each school district should be able to decide for itself theirown policy on integration and that state laws punishing integrated schools should be repealed. -
Integration of UGA
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/file/13631' >integration </a>
The U.S. District Court in Athens, Georgia ordered the
University of Georgia to be integrated. But even throught the harsh and dangerous protests and threats Charlayne Hunter
and Hamilton Holmes fought to becme the first two African-Americans to enroll at UGA and succeded and were granted admission on January 6, 1961. -
Albany Movement
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/16047367/recalling-the-hisotry-of-the-albany-movement
The desegregation movement took place from fall 1961 to summer 1962 in Albany. The NAACP and SNCC were both involved. Their goal was to bring national attention to the Civil Rights movement by ending all types of segregation in Albany including buses, hospitals, juries, etc.They recruited Martin Luther King Jr. trying to draw americans attention to the movement. It ended up failing. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born in Atlanta, GA and later studied at Morehouse College under Benjamin Mays. He was the leader of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, who believed in non-violent protests.Famous for leading a bus boycott that ended bus
segregation in Montgomery, AL and for the "March on Washington" on August 28, 1963 where he gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He also was the founder and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).He later won a Nobel Peace Prize. -
March on Washingtion
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm' >"I Have a Dream"</a> The March on Washington was held on August 28, 1963, and led by Martin Luther King Jr. More than 250,000 people joined in Washington, D.C. to demand equal rights for blacks. This is where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. -
Civil Rights Act
After the March on Washington, the Senate considered passing the civil rights act which prohibited discrimination in all publicplaces and made it illegal to discriminate in employment on the basis of race or sex. Richard B. Russell, the Georgia Senator, was against the bill. He organized a 75-day filibuster with 18 other Southern Democratic Senators. In June 1964, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 73-27.The Civil Rights Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Lester Maddox
In 1964 Lester Madooxed closed his restaurant in Atlanta Georgia due to disagreeing to the Civil Rights Act, and was praised for his actions. In 1996 he became the Governor of Georgia. He hired many more black people to fill government positions. He supported prison reform, increased spending for Gerogia's universities, and started "People's Day." This was when once every month average citizens were offered the oppourtunity to talk directly to the governor at the governor's office. -
Andrew Young
Young organized voter registration and desegregation efforts in Albany and other cities in the south during the 1950s and 1960s. He worked with MLK, Jr. and the SCLC organization.
In 1972, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first black elected from GA since the Reconstruction period. In 1977 President Jimmy
Carter selected Young to be the U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations. -
Maynard Jackson
Atlanta’s population was an African-American majority by the year 1973. Maynard Jackson and Mayor Sam Massell (another person popular with blacks) ran to become the first
African-American mayor of the major American city of Atlanta. He won and became mayor on October 16, 1973.
