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Rev. Benjamin Mays
Was president of Morehouse College and head of Atlanta public schools. He was a mentor to Martin Luther King and against segregation. -
Governors race/end of the white primary
Was the beggining of African Americans being able to vote for governor and the three governors crisis. -
Brown vs. the Board of education
A United States Supreme court case in which a law was established saying that in public schools, "seperate but equal is not ok" for blacks and whites. -
Montgomery bus boycott
In Montgomery Alabama, a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for refuesing to give up her seat for a whites only seat, in return, the black community organized a boycott of all bus lines. -
1956 State Flag
Georgias state flag is changed to the confederate flag because southerners wanted to stay true to there southern herritage. -
SNCC (student nonviolent coordinating commitee)
A nonviolent protest comitee was formed by students who they protested for blacks rights and did sit-ins and marches. -
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
Where the first two black students at the time to join UGA. -
Albany Movement
A protest that tried to promote desegregtion, but failed, and tookmany people to jail, but also thought a great lesson. -
Civil rights movement March on Washington
a Minister named Martin Luther King Junior gave a foumos speech that helped lead blacks and whites together called the "I Have a Dream speech", he also believed in peaceful protest. -
Maynard Jackson mayor of ATL
Was elected mayor for Atlanta and increased public transportation and earned an airport named after him called hartsfield-jackson.
