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Brown v. Board of education
In 1944,US Supreme Court decisions in Smith v. Allwright said that African Americans could participate in primary elctions.
The bron case was based on the important argument that black students were getting unequal education.
The teacher pay was different ;and that school supplies were different -
White Primary in GA
The end of whte primary stopped African American for having to vote for only democrats -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Comittee(SNCC)
SNCC is an organization for black and white college stuents.
Local citizens were joined by African Americans working with SNCC under the leaderdhip of Charles Sherrod.
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Hamilton Holmes & Charlayne Hunter into UGA
Hamilton Holmes was the valevictorian of the Henry McNeal Turner High School.
Charlayne Hunter was also a top graduate.
There applications to University of Georgia we rejected.
January 1961, U.S District Court Judge William Bootle ordered that they be amitted to UGA. -
Albany Movement
The movement began to desegrate Albany in Dougherty County , the first large -scale effort since Montgomery.
In this rural area of the state, most blacks depend on whites for thier livelihood, making protest a risky activity.
That November , a group called the Albany Movement organized the fight to end decrimination.
Protest marches led to the mass arrest of hundreds. -
March on Washington
the march to washington is where Martin Luther king Jr.gave his famous speech.
the march didnt only start in birmingham,alabam it started in other parts of the south. -
Civil Rights Act
the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Election of Mayard Jackson
Jackson was another important African American politian.
He was a Morehouse graduate like MLK. Jr.
Maynard Jackson could not run for a third straight term,so he was out of office from 1982-1990, while Andrew Young served as the president.
Im 1990 he ran for the third time and won!.
