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1946 Governor's Race
Eugene Talmadge won the election as the Gov., but before he could be sworn in he died. When a Gov. leaves office the Leiutnant Gov. is suppose to take there position. The citizens did NOT want Melvin Thompson as Gov., so they said that they'd wrote in Herman Talmadge (Eugene Talmadge's son) as the new Gov. But Ellis Arnall, the incumbant, said he wasn't going to leave office until another Gov. was in office. Georgia ended up having another election and Herman Talmadge won. -
End of the White Primary
The White Primary was when non-white citizens were denied the right to vote. In 1946 the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to do so. Over 100,000 blacks signed up to vote completely changing political powers. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge was the son of Eugene talmadge, and won the election after his fathers death. After winning the election, Herman started sales taxes that were used to fund the public school system which benefitted Georgia a great deal. Also Herman introduced new industries to the state such as timber. Though he did well bringing businesses, Herman was a strong segregationist not wanting to both whites and the inferior colored class in the same schools. -
Brown VS Board of Education
All over the country, cases were formed about how people were seperate but not equal. Oliver Brown, father, husband, and fighter against being denied the right of a good education for his daughter. When deciding a school for his daughter the better quality one would not allow the acceptance for the color of their skin. The court ruled it unconstiutional furthering the fight against civil rights. -
1956 State Flag
The 1956 Georgia State Flag was told to not to be appropriate for it has the confederate symbol on it. This as not noticed until late 1960s however and wasn't brought up for speculation until 1969 by Janet Meritt who proposed to change it to the pre-1956 flag. Further sessions speculated anew flag and was changed in 1998. -
Lester Maddox
In 1957 Lester Maddox began running for political office as mayor but los, in 1962 he ran as Leiutenant Governor and lost again, many of which was because he campaigned in integrity, economics and government, and mainly how he supported segregation. After an incident he was known to the nation as a wild segregationist. -
Benjamin Mays
Though Benjamin Mays was well known as a social activist he was also an educator to many, including the famous Martin Luther King Jr. Benjamin Mays poised many positions in education all around the east coast, from D.C. to Florida he ended up at Morehouse college. While at Morehouse, Mays became the close friend and lifelong mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. -
SNCC
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was created because of the issue of segregated lunch counters in schools. Students would participate in sit-ins and in Greensboro, Nashville, a SCLC member helped them create the committee. -
Sibley Commission
In 1960, Gov. Ernest Vandiver Jr. had to choose between a segregated schools or closing ALL public schools. The Sibley Commision collected data determining if the population wanted to desegregate schools or not. The results came out to be that the tension of desegregating was lowered. -
Hamilton Holmes adn Charlayne Hunter to UGA
Hamilton Holmes was known for desegregating schools and was one of the first few who were accepted into University of Georgia. His friend whom graduated from the same high school, Charlayne Hunter, both toured Georgia State. Unlike Holmes, Hunter was a part of the NAACP. -
Albany Movement
A movement that lasted close to a year in which to shed a brighter light in desegregation. MLK Jr. put forth effort into the movement though causing him and thousands of other blacks to be arrested, when it ended they did not end segregation as they had hoped led to the success in Alabama in later years. -
March on Washington
Annually, thousands of blacks and whites came to the March on washington traveling near and far infront of Abe Lincoln's statue to state there demand on the change in politics and society. Civil Rights Leaders scheduled a new kind of march. They had planned it on specifically about Civil Rights. -
Civil Rights Act
John F. Kennedy brought the idea into discussion and it perservered through rough times of southern critisism and was signed in by Lyndon B. Johnson. The Civil Rights Act finally ended segregation and finally created racial equallity. In later years Congress created more acts continuing the end of segregation. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr. participated and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, spoke at the SCLC and March on Washington. The Montegomery Bus Boycott occurred because Rosa Parks wouldn't give here seat up for a white citizen, creating the boycott which lasted 381 days led by MLK Jr. as the spokesperson. The SCLC was a new position as he became co-pastor with his father, which did not stop him from further boycotts and protests. The March on Washington was a protest against having our troops in Vietnam. -
Andrew Young
After MLK Jr. had been assasinated, Young rose above and became the first Black in the U.S. seat in the House of Representatives since reconstruction. While in seat, he worked in the area of the poor and working-class. Later after the presidential election of Jimmy Carter, he was appointed as an ambassador in the United Nations. -
Maynard Jackson as Mayor of Atlanta
The first black mayor of Atlanta and of Southern States was Mynard Jackson, whom of which served eight years then came back again in 1990 for a third term.
