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1946 Governer's Race/end of the White primary
The governer's race forced Georgia to allow African-Americans to vote in the Democratic primary. But, the Democrats had other ideas…they wanted to make their primary’s a private club. Governor Ellis Arnall prevented that from happening, and the white primary neared its end. But, it would still be a struggle going forward.
1944 case of Smith Vs. Allwright was the Supreme Court decision that ruled the Texas White Primary was unconstitutional. -
Herman Talmage
Herman Talmage, the son of Eugene Talmage, like his father disagreed with civil rights legislation.
He wanted to keep segregation between blacks a whites.
He cared most about helping rural areas and farmers.
Although he wanted segregation he reached out to blacks to get their votes in the 1970s. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown vs board cases Official Documentation
This was a court case in which Kans Brown declared the seprate but equal Jim Crow Laws unconstitutional.
Brown ended up winning and in result the Jim Crow laws were finally removed. -
1956 State Flag
The new flag included the confederate Battle Flag stripes.
This was a backlash against the Brown v. Board of Education result. -
Benjamin Mays
Mays published book with great impact on opinions "Seeking to Be a Christian in Race Relations".
He was an important leader of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
He was also a minister.
Best known as longime president of "Morehouse College" Atlanta.
Was a mentor to MLKJ.
Outspoken critique of segregation before the modern civil rights movement.
Spoke with Ghandi about civil rights in 1936 whilst on a trip to India. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a Dream audio
In 1958 there was an attemped assassination with a knife and published "Stride Towards Freedom".
King was an important rolemodel and outspoken person about civil rights.
He led many peaceful protests and orchestrated boycotts against white goods.
He was an religous leader as well. -
Sibley Commission
The Sibley Commission/Committee was a group of people sent out to survey peoples opinions about whether or not schools should continue being segregated.
The results of the survey led to the end of massive resistance to desegregation in the state. -
Hamilton Holmes and the Charlayne Hunter to UGA
Hamilton and Holmes (two black students) applied for UGA repeatedly as to gain access to their better science facilities
After being denied admission to the college multiple times they filed a suit against the school registrar.
The result of the suit was that the students would have been accepted if it werent for their race/color.
Afterwards they were accepted into the college. -
Albany Movement
Albany Movement Video
The albany movement was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to try and desegrate an entire community.
Martin Luther King Jr. attended but the movement was unsuccesful, although later with the experience MLK earned from that movement he was able to make the next movement in Birmingham successful. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Black college students from North Carolina performed a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro because they were denied service there.
This event inspired a wave of sit-ins in many college towns in the south.
This also led to the creation of the SNCC -
March on Washington
PBS documentary Video
Martin Luther King Jr. led a "march on washington. In this event he gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.
The march stood for blacks jobs and freedom.
In fact it was so succesful that about 250 thousand people attended. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights act was an act which forbade descrimination of sex and race when hiring promoting or firing employees.
This act helped the problem of job segregation that the blacks had been fighting for. -
Lester Maddox
Was a surprisinlgy no racist Governer and elected many blacks in to government positions.
Although he seemed to not be racist though he fought against the civil rights aims of the party. -
Andrew Young
He was elected to congress in 1972 and believed in human rights like Martin Luther King.
He supported the campaign of Jimmy Carter an Later in 1977 Carter named him the ambassador to the United nations.
With his new position he was able to make Americas foreign policy to far more focused on human rights. -
Maynard Jackson as Mayor of Atlanta
Maynard Jackson Funeral Service
Maynard Jackson was the first african american to serve as a mayor in a major southern city.
He was elected for three terms and helped to schedule the 1996 Atlanta olympics.
