Civil Rights

By jamie.monroy
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    CIvil Rights Events

  • Benjamin Mays

    President of Mroehouse collage who taught his students to challenge segregation.

  • Lester Maddox

    Segregationist who was later electer as governor and ironically appointed more blacks than whites intostate offices.

  • Andrew Young

    First black congress amn since reconstruction. Played a key role in bringing the Olympics to Georgia.

  • Maynard Jackson

    First black mayor of Atlanta.

  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Civil rights leader who belived that non-violenc was the best way of winning equality for blacks.

  • Hamilton Holmes

    The first black man to be admitted to UGA.

  • Charlayne Hunter

    The first black female to be admitted to UGA.

  • Civil Right Act

    This law outlawed the discrimination of all people no matter there race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • Three governors controversy

    Follwing the death of Eugene Talmadge his son was to take his spot as governor but lieutenant governor Melvin Thompson wanted it as well.

  • Brown Vs. Board of Education

    This is a court case where it was decided that seperate but equal was ok in schools.

  • 1956 State Flag

    Many disliked the flag because it was racial descrimination.

  • SNCC

    This was formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement.

  • Sibley Commission

    In 1955, the General Assembly decided to cut off state funds to any system that integrated its schools.

  • Albany Movement

    The Albany movement was a movement to end segregation in Albany schools.

  • Voting Rights Act

    This law made it easier for southern blacks to vote.