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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.
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Governer Ellis Arnall end the " all white primary"
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Herman Talmage served as governor in 1947
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The Supreme Court says that segregation is ILEGAL. "Seperate but Equal" is NOT ok. Public schools begin to be integrated.
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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.
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In 1956 the confederates changed the flag because they were upset that schools were integrated
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Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a group that supported the rights of blacks.
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They would rather close down public schools than let them be integrated.
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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.
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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.
