civil rights

By alondrahart

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    a leader in non violent peaceful protest

  • Benjamin Mays

    became the president of Morehouse College
    He was the youngest of eight children born to Louvenia Carter and Hezekiah Mays, tenant farmers and former slaves.

  • End of the White Primary

    Beginning of the end for the White Primary came with two events, one in Texas, the other in Georgia.

  • Brown vs. Boards of Education

    declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • 1946 Governor’s Race

    1946 was a beginning for African-Americans, they could vote for Governor.
    1946 was also the beginning of the Three Governor’s Crisis.

  • 1956 state flag

    In response to brown vs. board

  • Herman Talmadge

    In 1936 he graduated from the University of Georgia
    Talmadge also participated in the invasion of Guadalcanal and the battle of Okinawa
    Governor Herman E. Talmadge died on March 21, 2002,

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