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Civil Rights

By b.wrightz

  • Benjamin Mays

    Benjamin Mays
    Benjamin Mays was the President of Morehouse College and head of Atlanta Public Schools. In addition, he was also a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. He was against segregation.

  • 1946 Governor's Race/End of the White Primary

    1946 Governor's Race/End of the White Primary
    Governer Ellis Arnall end the " all white primary"

  • Herman Talmage

    Herman Talmage
    Herman Talmage served as governor in 1947

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    The Supreme Court says that segregation is ILEGAL. "Seperate but Equal" is NOT ok. Public schools begin to be integrated.

  • Rosa Parks- Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks- Montgomery Bus Boycott
    A woman named Rosa Parks(African American) refuses to give up her "whites only" seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The black community organized a boycott of all bus lines. In 1956 the Supreme Court decides that buses must be integrated.

  • 1956 State Flag

    1956 State Flag
    In 1956 the confederates changed the flag because they were upset that schools were integrated

  • SNCC

    SNCC
    Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a group that supported the rights of blacks.

  • Sibley Commission

    Sibley Commission
    They would rather close down public schools than let them be integrated.

  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to UGA

    Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to UGA
    First black students to go to an integrated schools. They were abused by racists that went to the school because they didn't want them there.

  • Civil Rights March on Washington

    Civil Rights March on Washington
    Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech "I Have a Dream" in Washington DC, which helped blacks and whites come together. This was the most famous of his many peaceful protests.