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Whte Primary is abolished in Georgia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3507 http://ecarson.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/528.jpg The white primary was a loophole in the 14th Amendment. It made it so that blacks could vote in the main election, but not the primary election. It was abolished because in 1964 in the King vs. Chapman case, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. -
Integration of the Armed Forces
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/desegregation/large/index.php?action=chronology http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/72-3952.jpg President Harry S. Truman was asked by black leaders to consider desegregating the armed forces, and on February 2, Trumman asked the Secretary of Defense to integrate the Armed Forces. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/historyculture/brownvboard.htm http://www.brownat50.org/images/HuntStepsPictLOC.jpg In December of 1952 six states went to the supreme court to challenge whether or not racial segregation in schools was constitutional or not. It wasn't until 1955 that segregation in schools was made illegal. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4L6Mbm9y0a4/SNiIkmQZlaI/AAAAAAAAADw/2s2f6sxjIBg/s400/bus.gif At the time it was law that black people were made to sit at the back of the bus or just stand. One day Rosa Parks sat down in the white section of the bus and didn't get up when a white man asked her to move. She was later arrested, but it caused the whole of the African American race to start standing up for themselves and it started something big. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (cont.)
On December 5, 1955, all of the Montgomery Black community Boycotted the bus company and didn't ride the buses at all. -
GA's flag is changed...... Again
http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/ga_flag.htm http://goo.gl/nlFJ8 In 1956 the Georgia state flag was changed into a similar flag to the Condederate States of America flag during the Civil War. It was changed by John Sammons Bell, Jefferson Lee Davis, and Willis Harden. They said they changed it in order to honor the recent centennial of the war. But most believed it was because of Georgia's resistance to integrate. In 2001 and 2004 it was changed again until it became our current flag. -
Crisis at Central Highschool and the "Little Rock Nine"
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1663841,00.html http://ericblackink.minnpost.com/wp-content/uploads/protesters_follow_one_of_the_Little_Rock_Nine.jpg When 9 black students tried to go Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor and the Arkansas National Guard stood on the front stairs and kept them from getting into the school. The president sent in the 101st Airborne to keep them safe and tthe governor soon backed down and the school was integrated. -
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in Atlanta Bombed
http://goo.gl/swHib http://goo.gl/AnHi3 General Gordon of the Confederate Underground was angry at Blacks and Jews and declared them aliens, so all buildings that refused to fire their Black or Jewish workers was under the threat of being bombed by Gordon. So, to make an example, he bombed the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation of Atlanta because their rabbi was a known Civil Rights leader. -
The Sibley Commision
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_sibley_commission http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/private-school.jpg When schools refused to integrate, the government decided to stop government funding to schools the integrated. Afterwards, many private schools were built so that white children didn't have to go to school with black students. -
Freedom Rides
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom%20rides.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/pictures/FreedomRides_big.gif On May 4 Civil Rights activist left Washington D. C. on buses and rode down ito the southern states in order to test the new law passed by the Supremem Court allowing them to ride the buses. They were confronted though by white citizens and violence soon broke out and it was a huge mess after that. -
Integration of UGA
http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/integration/integration1.html http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2494/3752471369_6b2c018279_z.jpg?zz=1 After two black girls were escorted into UGA, students said they would rather have the school close down than let the two girls go there. But the government ignored them, and then Georgia was able to get Herschel Walker and win a national title. -
Albany Movement
http://crdl.usg.edu/events/albany_movement/?Welcome http://www.visionaryproject.org/timeline/timeline_content/images/031a-lg.jpg When the Supreme court mad it illegal to segregate buses and trains, a few black people tested it out in 1961, but were arrested and later on many more black people were arrested and put in jail. -
Birmingham, Alabama Protests
http://goo.gl/mSEO2 http://goo.gl/VI8ow 45 protestors marched to city hall from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in non-violent protest. When they were aasked to leave, they didn't and the sherriff turned firehoses and dogs on the protestors to make them leave. Eventually the police started arresting people and so many were arrestested that the city finally agreed to hire more blacks and integrated lunch counters. -
The March on Washington
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html http://blog.reidreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/mlk-wash.jpg The March on Washington was a march at Washinton D. C. for black jobs and freedom. 250,000 peopple were in attendence and within a year afterwards a bill was passed ending all racial segregation and blacks were starting to be treated as equals. -
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
http://www.useekufind.com/peace/summary.htm http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/media_content/m-2545.jpg A few racist people struck out in anger and racism towards blacks when they bombed the African American church 16th Street Baptist Church. Four people were dead afterwards and all were young girls. Because the police didn't care, it took until 1977 to convict one one of the victims. Because of this more white people turned to the side of the negroes and civil rights were near approaching. -
John F. Kennedy Assasinated
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/JFK_Assassination http://i3.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens13978541module123999701photo_1286348575539w.jpg On an average November day in Texas, president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline ina motorcade when three consecutive shots were imbeded in his body. He was proclaimed dead on the spot and within a few months his vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn into office. -
Civil Rights Act 1964 passed
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil64.htm http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/resources/uploads/civil_rights_act_1964.gif Although there was much filibustering by Richard B. Russell to try and keep the bill from being passed. Lyndon Johnson starteed a vote on the bill and it was passed 73 to 27. And on June 15 it was declared illegal to segregate all public places and employers would no longer discriminate their black emplyees. In the deep south voting was no longer denied to blacks. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100 http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/images/M319-150b.jpg This act made it illegal to keep Blacks from voting and took away all tests that needed to be taken before voting. By doing this it gave a new sense of freedom to all Blacks. -
All Georgia Schools Integrated
http://www.gpb.org/files/imagecache/newsArticle/news/images/body/_math-games-for-the-classroom-1.jpg In 1971 all schools in Georgia were integrated after the newly signed Civil Rights Bill.
