civil rights era

By COrellana

  • end of the white primary in gerorgia

    ''17 states have an open primary system for elections, for example Georgia.The voter does not need to register his political affiliation before voting.''

  • the 1946 governor's race

    1946 was a beginning for African-Americans. They could vote for the Governor. 1946 was also the beginning of the Three Governor’s Crisis. Blacks could be apart of the voting system.

  • brown v. board of education court of ruling

    ''Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed' http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0347_0483_ZS.html

  • founding of student non-violent coorfinating committee (SNCC)

    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_student_nonviolent_coordinating_committee_sncc/

  • the admission of hamilton holmes & charlyane hunter into UGA

    Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first African American students admitted to the University of Georgia, arrived on campus to register for classes on January 9, 1961. Protests and riots by white students who were opposed to the university's desegregation resulted in a temporary suspension for Hunter and Holmes, http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-3996

  • the abany movement

    Formed on 17 November 1961 by representatives from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Ministerial Alliance, the Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the Negro Voters League, the Albany Movement conducted a broad campaign in Albany http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_albany_movement/

  • the march of washington

    The 1963 March on Washington attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. Participants walked down Constitution and Independence avenues, then — 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed — gathered before the Lincoln Monument for speeches, songs, and prayer. http://www.core-online.org/History/washington_march.htm

  • 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, http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm

  • the election 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. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term

    Maynard Jackson
    in 1990, following the mayorship of Andrew Young http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1385