The Civil Rights Movement Timeline

By FiremanAD

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    the US Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional and the General Assembly stopped funding and let the governor close any segregated schools

  • Changing of the GA state flag

    racists didn't like the ruling of the US court so the made their flag with the confederate symbol on it which was declared racist

  • Little Rock Nine

    nine black students were enrolled into an all white school (Little Rock) due to the previous court ruling of Brown vs. Board of Education

  • SCLC Founding

    founded by African-Americans for the civil rights movement. Most members were ministers and pastors

  • SNCC founding

    made up of high school and college students who worked to get African Americans into the General Assembly and focused on orchestrating peaceful, nonviolent protests

  • Sibley Commission

    pushed for Georgia's schools to desegregate

  • Integration of UGA

    two high school students applied to go to UGA but were rejected due to race so they took it to court and they won and they went to school at UGA and graduated

  • Albany Movement

    many African-Americans started to test the segregationist policies in the cities and protested but were jailed by whites and city police

  • March on Washington

    civil rights activists went to Washington DC to promote their cause for civil rights legislation

  • Civil Rights Act

    forbade discrimination on the basis of sex and race in hiring, promoting and firing

  • Voting Rights Act

    prohibited states from imposing any voting qualifications on voting or deny the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color

  • Election of Lester Maddox

    Lester beat Elis Arnall for governor and he gave many African-Americans a government position

  • First Black Mayor of Atlanta

    Maynard Jackson; first black mayor of major southern city, helped promote black-owned businesses and added more black police to the cit of ATL

  • Andrew Young elected

    Was active in the Civil Rights Movement and primarily focused on voter registration drives. He became the mayor of ATL in 1981. Helped to grow the city and continue growth and national and international prestige and helped bring the Olympics to GA