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Martin Luther King Jr.
In February 1948 King Sr. ordained his son as a Baptist minister. MLK was one of the main leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He was imprisoned multiple times for protesting against segregation and equal treatment for all races. He used nonviolent tactics such as protests, marches, and boycotts. The bus boycott made King a national symbol of black protest. In the next few years he spoke alongside other national black leaders and met with U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower and a host of foreig -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLKFamily, church, and education were the central forces shaping King's early life.
King was educated in Atlanta, graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in 1944. He then followed in the path of his maternal grandfather and father and enrolled at Morehouse College. King first considered studying medicine or law but decided to major in sociology. He ultimately found the call to the ministry irresistible, however. He served as assistant to his father at Ebenezer while studying at Morehouse. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. He was the first black mayor of Georgia.Young assisted in the organization of "citizenship schools" for the SCLC, workshops that taught nonviolent organizing strategies to local people whom members of the organization had identified as potential leaders. -
Brown v. Board of Education
In 1936 the NAACP launched a national campaign that fought for the desegregation of public schools in 1950 a seven-year old Linda Brown, a black student, tried to enroll in an all-white school in Topeka, Kansas when her entry was denied the NAACP helped Brown’s father sue the board of education the case reached the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruling stated that separate-but-equal schools were unconstitutional (1954). -
Benjamain Mays
Benjamin MaysHe was an African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. He was the president of Morehouse college in Atlanta, Georgia (1940-1968). He increased the academic reputation for Morehouse college. he was part of the NAACP, YMCA, World Council of Churches, the United Negro College Fund, the National Baptist Convention, the Urban League, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and the Peace Corps Advisory Committee. He worked with MLK. -
1946 Governor's Race/ End of White Primary
Governor's Race
It began because of the death of Eugene Talmadge. Another election was held and Eugene’s son, Herman Talmadge, was elected, but the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, took office as well and the old governor Ellis Arnall refused to leave thus making there be three governors. All of the governors had different offices. In the end Herman became the official governor because an election was held. -
White Primary
White primaries were primary elections in the Southern states of the United States of America in which only white voters were permitted to participate. After judicial enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment ended grandfather clauses, white primaries, and other discriminatory tactics, Southern black voter registration gradually increased, rising from five percent in 1940 to twenty-eight percent in 1960. White primaries were established in many Southern states. -
Herman Talmadge
HermanHe served as the governor of Georgia for a brief time (1947-1948). He was the son of Eugene Talmadge. He was a member of the democratic party. He was elected for his first four year term in the Senate (1956). He introduced the Rural Development Act of 1972 while he was a state senator. -
Albany Movement
It began in the fall of 1951 and ended in the summer of 1952.SNCC went to Albany, Georgia and sat at a lunch counter white people threw cups and food at them, poured drinks on their heads, and they hit them; however the SNCC came through and ordered their food. Other protests and things were done to test segregation policies and in order to get national support they asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to protest with them. In December King spoke at a mass meeting, and he marched the next day. -
1956 State flag of Georgia
Flag-controversial flag that flew over Georgia from 1956-2001.
-The flag was controversial due to the flag’s prominent Confederate Battle emblem
-the cross with stars across it is St. Andrew’s cross
-it was controversial between black and white citizens because the flag was used by the confederates in the south that fought to keep slavery and it was very offensive to black citizens -
SNCC
SNCCStands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. In Georgia SNCC concentrated its efforts in Albany and Atlanta. The SNCC started the Albany movement; many of the members joined together to test the segregation laws in Albany. The SNCC sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism. SNCC members played an integra -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that 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 workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). The bill was called for by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963. -
Lester Maddox
He was the governor of Georgia (1967-1971). He lost three main elections, 1 for lieutenant governor and 2 for the mayor of Georgia. As a populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist, when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act. Once he was made governor, Lester Maddox wanted to help African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement; more African Americans were appointed to government positions than all governors
