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The 1946 govonor race
Georgia had just created a new constion in 1945. In artical 5 the office of Lieutenant Governor was created.Issues of contested elections were covered as well as succession if the governor became disabled or died.Eugene Talmadge was elected governor in November, 1946, but died the next month.No one had thought to stipulate what happens if the governor-elect dies before taking office. Legally speaking, there has to be some sort of succession, but the constitution was silent on the issue. -
Harry Truman and Civil Rights
He issued orders ot desegregate the armed services and the executive departments of the national goverment.Both of these acts were important in the growing call for a more equal and just society.the desegration was a huge imoact on the south.All of the military basses in the south would now be islands of integration in thesurronding sea of segregation. -
Brown v. Board of Edcation
The Browns case was based on the important argument that black chlidren werre getting an unequal education. It was easy to show the funding for the students was un equal;that teacher pay was diffrent;v and the school buildings, the classsrooms, the textbooks were inferior. -
unamimous decsion in the brown v. borad of education case
In thier 1954 unaimous descion in the brown v. Board of Education case, the nine justiices on the supreme court did away with the separate but - equal doctrine that had been in effect since the 1896 Plessy v. Fergson decision. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Was an organizations os the American Civil Rights Movement in teh 1960s. It emegerd from a seires of students meeting led by Ella Barker held at Shaw Univirsity in April in 1960. SNCC grew into a large coorpration with many supporters from the North who helped raise funds to support the SNCC's work in the South, allowing full time SNCC workers to get payed $10 a week salsry. -
The admissom of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter into UGA
Charlayne Hunter and Halmiton Holmes, the first African American students admitted to the Univiersty of Georgia. They arried on campus to registure thier classes on January 9\, 1961. THe white students where opposted of the univiersity's desegragrtion resulted in a temporaysuspition for hunter and Holmes but the two soon returned to the campus after a few court orders and begain thier studies. Both Graduated in 1963. -
Albant movement
Was a de segragation colatition formed in Albany Georgia on November 17, 1961 by lolocal artist students, SNCC and the NCCP. The Albany Movement Moblized tousands of citiziens and attracted nation wide. but fail to acomlish its goals because of determend oppentes. However, Iit is created as a key leasson in stratgy and tatics for the civil rights movement. -
The March on Washigton
The great narch on washigton was one of the largest pollticall ralies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and enomic rights for African Americans it took place at Whashigton D.C. on Wednesday August 28,1963. Martin Luther King Jr, standing in front of Lincoln Memorial, and divliverd his "I Have a Dream" speech -
The Civil Rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's benchmark civil rights legislation, and it continues to resonate in America.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Passage of the Act ended the application of "Jim Crow" laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. -
The ELecton of Maynard Jackson
Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city.Jqckson served 8 years and returned for a 3rd term in 1990.As a result of affirmative action programs instituted by Jackson in his first two terms, the portion of city business going to minority firms rose dramatically.