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White Primary/ Prejudice
The white primary was used by southern whites to keep Africa-Americans from voting in the Democratic Primary. -
Benjamin Mays
May became president of morehouse collage. Four years later MLK entered morehouse and the two former a mentor/mentee relationship that would last until king's murder in 1968 -
1946 Governor Race/ 3 Governor controversy
After Eugene Talmagde died it wasnt clear who was the governor. Herman Talmadge and melvin Thompson both claimed to be the true governor. Once things were seatled Ellis Arnall ended up being governor. -
Brown vs board of education
seven-year-old Linda Brown, a black student, tryed to enroll in a all-white school in topeka, texas. In its ruling, court said separate-but-equal school were unconsitutional. -
Matin Luther King Jr.
HIs work during the civil right movement earned a noble peace prize. He is often thought of as the "leader" of the civil right movement. -
1956 Georgia state flag
Ruling many souhtern states urged their white citizens to display act of massive resistance against the fedral mandates outlaw segrations. One of the ways the Georgia assembly showed their dispain for these federal regulation was by changing the state flag. -
Albany Movement
Six years after Brown v. Board of Edcation, Albany school were still segregated. They were arrested were aresred at the sentral railway teminal. -
SNCC
Begun as an interracial group advocating non-violence, it adopted greater military late in the decade, reflecting natioinwide trends in black activism. After the mid-1960s, an advocate of theburgeoning "black power" movement , a facet of late 20th- century black nationalism. -
Sibley commmission
The Georgia Assembly reconzied change at hand. The sibley commission held hearings all over the state to learn how the public felt about intergration. -
Holmes and Hunter
Hamilton was the first african male to be admitted to the university of Georgia and to attend Emory University's Medical School.
Charlayne was the first African American female to be admitted to the University of Georgia -
March on Washington
An interracial Assembly of more than 200,000 people gathered peaceably in the shadow of the Lincoln memorial to demand equal judtice for all citizens under teh law. Marthin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "i have a dream" speech. -
Lester Maddox
Maddox was born in Atlanta. During a period of great social political chane in Georiga, Lester Maddox stands out the last overtly segregationist governor in the state's history. -
Civil Rights Act
Under president Johnson's leadership, and with the political pressure of both blsck and white supporters, the Civil rihgts Act of 1964 became law. -
Voting Rights Act
The march influenced congress to pass the voting rights act. It prohibited racial discrimination in voting. -
Maynard Jackson
Maynard Jackson was the first African American Mayor of Atlanta.
Jackson attended morehouse collage and graduated in 1956 when he was only 18. -
Andrew Young
Civil Rights activist in aiding Martin Luther King Jr. Andrew was born to middle class parents in new orlands, Lousiana. -
Olympic Games
197 nations was apart of the 1996 Olympic Games. Andrew Young was the key to bringing the 1996 Olympics of to Georiga.