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White primaries were primary elections in the Southern States of the United States of America (Georgia in this case) in which any non-White voter was prohibited from participating.( Blacks and any other race was not allowed to vote)
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African Americans were able to vote for governor. Eugene Talmadge died. General Assembly elected Talmadge's son as governor, but Melvin Thompson and Ellis Arnall refused.
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Based on the important argument that black children were getting an unequal education. School buildings, classrooms, and textbooks were inferior.
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A group of balck and white college students that were against segregation. They wanted to intergrate the colleges.
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A movement began to desegregate Albany in Dougherty County. Martin Luther King Jr. and some of his top assistants came to town in December and were arrested, in order o get publictiy for the movement .
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Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, were the first African American students admitted to the University of Georgia, arrived on campus to register for classes on January 9, 1961
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Spurred president John Kennedy to support a civil rights bill in congress, saying "the time had come for the nation to fulfill its promise"
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On 2 July 1964, Johnson signed the new Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law with King and other civil rights leaders present
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Elected Mayor of Atlanta in 1973. First African American to be elected governor of a major southern city.
