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Benjamin Mays
He published the book "Seeking to be a Christian in Race Relations". He was a minester and an important leader of the NAACP.Best known as presedent of Morehouse Collage Atlanta. He was a mintor to MLKJ and he spoke with Ghandi about civil rights on a trip to India. -
Herman Talmadge
He was the son of Eugene Talmadge and like his father he disagreed with the civil rights movement. He cared about helping rural areas and farmers. Although he wanted to keep blacks segregated he reached out to them to get their votes in 1970. -
Martin Luther King Junior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4FOvIf7G8He was an important role model and civil rights leader. He is the most famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech during The March On Washington.There were muiltiple assasination attempts on his life adventually leading to his death. -
1946 Governors Race and The End to White Primary
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/three-governors-controversyIt forced Georgia to allow all African Americans to vote for democrates. The American democrates tried to stop it but in diffrent civil cases white primary kept being ruled un-constitutional. -
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Segregation and Civil Rights
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Brown V. Board of Education
It was a court case that went to the supreme court and declared segregating schools unconstitutional. -
1956 State Flag
Georgia's state flag was changed to have the confederate flag on it showing support for white supremacy. -
Sibley Commission
It was a group that surveyed people asking for their opinions on segregation in schools. It led to a end of massive resistance to desegregation. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to UGA
Applied to UGA a numerous amount of times for their science program and where denied entry to UGA due to their skin color. they adventually were accepted into UGA. -
SNCC
Black students from a North Carolina collage perform the first sit in at a dinner that they were denied survice in inspiring a wave of sitins. -
Albany Movement
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movementIt was the first major civil rights movement in the modern civil rights era and although unsuccessful, Martin Luther King Junior said that he learned a lot from it. -
March On Washington
http://youtu.be/smEqnnklfYsThousands of Americans came to Washington D.C. to march on Washington and protest segregation and job struggles. It was also the place of Martin Luther King Juinors famous "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
Forbade the hiring or firing of people due to sex or race. It significantly helped Africian Americans in the fight for equality. -
Lester Maddox
He was a non-racist govenor that elected many blacks to congress. He was not racist but he still fought against the civil rights aims of the party. -
Andrew Young
He was elected to congress in 1972 and shared ideas with people like Martin Luther King Junior. He was later choosen to be the ambassador of the United Nations for Georgia and he made the US's foreign affairs a lot more focused on the topic of civil rights. -
Manyard Jackson as Mayor of Atlanta
<a href='http://http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/maynard-jackson-1938-2003' He was the first African American to serve as the mayor of a major city. He was elected for three terms and helped with the olympic games.
