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Benjamin Mays
Video clip of Dr. Mays (1980).Was president of Morehouse college.Mays served as president of Morehouse from 1940 to 1967. He served as advisor to Presidents Johnson and Carter, served on the Atlanta Board of Education for 9 years and was the first African American president to serve on the Board. Mays was also active in the Young Men’s Christian Association, member of the Advisory Council of the Peace Corps, and the National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. -
Martin Luther KIng Jr.
Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream SpeechMartin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s. He led non-violent protests to fight for the rights of all people including African Americans. He hoped that America and the world could become a fair society where race would not impact a person's civil rights. He is considered one of the great civil leaders of modern times and his speeches still inspire many to this day. -
Andrew Young
Active in the civil rights movement, he worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives. An early supporter of Jimmy Carter, he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the UN, the first African American to hold the post. He served as mayor of Atlanta. -
1946 Governer's Race/End of the White Primary
Also known as the three governer cotroversy. In 1946 Eugene Talmadge was elected governer, but he died. So the Georgia state legislature elected his son as governer. But, Talmadge's Luitenent governer claimed he should be governer. And the previous governer crefused to leave the office. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education in PBS' The Supreme CourtOn May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court announced an end to public segregation in schools in the famous Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case.Linda Brown was an African-American third-grader whose father, Oliver Brown, had sued the school system saying that the school his daughter went to, which had only African-American students, was equal to the school that only white Americans went to. Further, Brown alleged, the school system was discriminating against African-American students -
1956 State Flag
In 1956 Georgia added the confederate flag to its state flag, protesting against integrating schools. It was Georgia's state flag until 2001.The state flag featured a prominent Confederate Battle Flag, which some residents found offensive due to its historical use by the Confederate States of America and its contemporary use as a symbol by various white supremacy groups. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC)
SNCC was one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the north.Many people worked for pay. -
Albany Movement
A Documentary on the CiCivil Rights Movement in Albany Georgia.Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961. -
March on Washington
''I have a dream" speechThe March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.Over 200000 gathered to protest for jobs and freedom. Ended in MLK's "I have a dream" speech. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964 marks 50th anniversaryThe Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
