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White Primary Ends in GA
The White Primary was a time in Georgia when blacks were not allowed to vote in the Primary elections. A man named Primus King tried to vote in an election one day, but a police officer said that he could not. He took this to court and fought for two years to abolish the system. He won his case, ending the White Primary. Image from http://tinyurl.com/6ra7er7. Info from http://tinyurl.com/48u2h -
Integration of the Armed Forces
In 1948, President Truman desegregated all branches of the Armed Forces by signing order 9981. In WWII, after we discovered how racist the Nazis were, we looked at racism in our country and planned how to fix the issue. Integrating the Army was the perfect choice for one of the first steps. Image from http://tinyurl.com/nxt8l. Info from http://tinyurl.com/743yzwy. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
In 1950, a few black families tried to enroll their students into school. They were turned down because this school was an "all-white" school. Oliver Brown took this case all the way to the Supreme Court, where the Justices were unanimous in their decision that the children would be allowed to enroll. However, this case overruled the Plessy vs. Ferguson case which stated that facilities were to stay "separate but equal." Image from http://tinyurl.com/8x98dq2. Info from http://tinyurl.com/5tahrw -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Around 6 PM, Rosa Parks entered bus 2857. She sat down in the front of the bus when African-Americans were only allowed to sit in the back. She was asked to give up her seat, but she refused. Then, she was arrested. She was fined $10. The boycott was a time when people stopped riding the buses to protest. The company lost profit, and this attracted national attention. In 1956, the Court ruled that the segregation laws were unconstitutional. Image and info from http://tinyurl.com/9v23y. -
Change to the Flag
Georgia's flag had been changed before, but this was something different. This flag featured the same symbol of the Confederacy, and was supposed to signify the anniversary of the Civil War. However, this also hinted towards more segregation because of the way blacks were treated in that time. This flag lasted until 2001. Image from http://tinyurl.com/864pzu7. Info from http://tinyurl.com/9b6pd -
Central High School Crisis and the Little Rock Nine
9 students wanted to enroll in Central High School. Instead of being enrolled, they were blocked by the National Guard of Arkansas. This immediately made headline news across the country. The Little Rock Nine were the students who were blocked from entering the school. The students were escorted by the 101st Airborne Division into the school, ending the Crisis. They faced prejudice every day. Image from http://tinyurl.com/85jcunr.
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Bombing of The Temple
A bomb equivalent to 50 sticks of dynamite exploded by The Temple early one morning. An underground terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, declaring that they would bomb more buldings unless their demands were met. Image from http://tinyurl.com/74ch6um. Info from http://tinyurl.com/7erb9s2 -
Sibley Commision
John Sibley, an anti-integrationist was chosen to lead a project to see how the citizens of Georgia thought of integration of schools. One-third of people thought that schools should be shut down instead of integrated. Image from http://tinyurl.com/8737q4b. Info from http://tinyurl.com/7vnq2nz. -
Integration of UGA
Two students, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, were the first students in UGA. This ended 160 years of segregation at the university. This began a time of people realizing that segregation is not as bad as it may seems. Image from http://tinyurl.com/2c9wqbu. Info from http://tinyurl.com/7whxt85 -
Freedom Rides
Two buses filled with whites and blacks went around the country to test the limits of desegregation on the buses. At first, there was not much trouble, but then they were getting beaten, and then one of the buses was burned! When they arrived in Montgomery, a mob was waiting for them, and they were attacked. This inspired many more people to perfom these rides. Image and info from http://tinyurl.com/7rbmz3. -
Albany Movement
This organization was founded in ALbany, Georgia, and was the first large group to try to stop segregation. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the protestors who were arrested. Surprisingly, this movement failed in its efforts. Image and infro from http://tinyurl.com/7ffoulz. -
Protests in Birmingham
After the Albany protests, tensions were still high in the South. Leaders of the SCLC and the NAACP decided that they needed something to fully change the opinions of the citizens. The protests started with ignored sit-ins, then grew to having children stay outside of a church and not moving. These acts became news and victory was achieved. Image from http://tinyurl.com/7drdq48. Info from http://tinyurl.com/ql595m -
March on Washington D.C.
Martin Luther King, Jr. led one of the largest protests in the century. He, along with about 250,000 people, marched on the country's capital. At this march, he gave one of the most well-known speeches of all time where he stated that he sees the country as something that will grow into a place where everyone could be treated equally. Image from http://tinyurl.com/7qofq8o. Info from http://tinyurl.com/ylhhr7w -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombed
One morning, right before the service started, a church in Alabama was bombed. This bombing killed four innocent girls. This event made the country think about how badly these people have been treated. Image and info from http://tinyurl.com/3jy4mw9 -
Assassination of JFK
While Kennedy was riding through Dallas, he was shot. The assailant was Lee Harvey Oswald. This sent the nation into a large panic because there were problems with the Soviet Union and civil rights. We now realized that everyone needed to band together to overcome the problems. Image and info from http://tinyurl.com/5ep636. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act into effect, and it made every citizen equal. It made it illegal to not hire based on race, relgion, or gender. It also made any kind of discrimination illegal. Image from http://tinyurl.com/73pglpy. Info from http://tinyurl.com/yhqlymr. -
Voting Rights Act Passed
This Act was also signed by Lyndon Johnson. This made it illegal to make any kind of restriction for letting someone vote. This law made over 250,000 African-Americans register that year. Image and info from http://tinyurl.com/7rdd5q7. -
Summerhill Race Riots
In an Atlanta neighborhood, violence broke out over allegations of a police officer shooting a black man. Riots instantly started and this resulted in 1 death and 20 injuries. Image from http://tinyurl.com/7zhhqwd. Info from http://tinyurl.com/7jod7za -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most influential people in the United States, was killed in Memphis Tennesse, while leading a strike for sanitation workers. The muderer was James Earl Ray. Atlanta reacted differently to his death because Atlants was King's home and where he was started. Image and info from http://tinyurl.com/dew5h9. -
Integration of all GA Schools
The first integration of a school was in 1961, but this process took longer than most people thought. The South thought that if their schools became integrated, then they would lose their reputation of being discriminatory. Finally, in 1971, the last school was integrated. Image from http://tinyurl.com/7vpc2un. Info from http://tinyurl.com/875xeez
