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Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. (March 23, 1938 – June 23, 2003), was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He served three terms, two consecutive terms from 1974 until 1982 and a third term from 1990 to 1994. He became the first African-American mayor of Atlanta in the same election cycle in 1973 that -
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Governor ' s Race
1946 Governor of Georgia , Eugene Talmadge who was againt all the New Deal. Also was race he was quite a frisco. -
Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP has been challengig discrimination and segergation in courts.The decision ruled that all public schools must be desegregated.The Superme Court said segergation denied equal opportunity to all groups. -
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CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT
The Civil Right Movement include:
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956
Desegregating Little Rock, 1957
Sit-ins, 1960
Freedom Rides, 1961
Voter registration organizing
Integration of Mississippi universities, 1956–1965
Albany Movement, 1961–1962
Birmingham Campaign, 1963–1964
March on Washington, 1963
St. Augustine, Florida, 1963–1964
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement") refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. -
BUS BOYCOTT
African Americans begin a boycott, refusing to ride until they could sit anywhere. A year late, the courts ordered the buses desegregated. -
Founding of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
In 1960, Ella Baker, executive secretary of the SCLC, worked with college STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC). Julian Bond and John Lewis were members. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter on the campus of The University of Georgia. Holmes and Hunter became the first two African American students admitted to the University, one of many segregated southern institutions. -
Desegregate Atlanta School
Atlanta mayor William B, Hartsfired worked with black leaders to peacefully desegregate Atlanta schools .Nine brave students, Thomas Franklin Welch, Madelyn Patricia Nix, Willie Jean Black, Donita Gaines, Arthur Simmons, Lawrence Jefferson, Mary James McMullen, Martha Ann Holmes and Rosalyn Walton became the first African American students to attend -
Albany Movement
Take place in Albany,Georgia, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).This movement help end discrimination. -
The March on Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony during the march. -
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
The bill was called for by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963
