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White Primary is Abolished in GA
(information)(picture)Election was when any African American citizen was denied the right to vote in a meaningful manner. By the time the African Americans had voted the winner had already been chosen by the Primary. The Supreme Court previously ruled that the White Primary was constitutional. In the year 1946 the Supreme Court of the United States of America decided that it indeed breaks the amendments of the Constitution. As of the year 1946 White Primary was abolished in Georgia. -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Integration of the Armed Forces
information(picture)President Truman decided to end integration of the Armed Forces on July 26th 1948. Harry S. Truman signed an exclusive document launching the President’s agency on “Equality of Treatment and Opportunity” in the military. This document allowed the government to integrate the segregated military. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
information(picture)The Brown vs. Board of Education ended legal segregation in public schools. This ruling overturned the Plessey vs. Ferguson case of 1896. As a result of the case, racial segregation was declared a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. This decision led the way for the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
(both picture and information)On Montgomery Alabama buses colored folks would have to sit towards the back of the bus and the white folks would have to sit towards the front of the bus. One day when Rosa Parks refused to move it started a whole new chapter. Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott on all buses in Montgomery. He asked all colored folks to not ride the bus on Monday December 5th, 1955. To his surprise 99% of African Americans did not ride the bus all day. On November 23rd, 1956 segregated buses was ruled unconst. -
Change to Georgia's State Flag
information(picture)Georgia’s new state flag was controversial from the beginning. People had different beliefs about what the flag stood for. Some said it honored the civil war and others said it represented resistance to integration. In 1956 we added the 13 stars and 2 blue stripes to our flag. People had different beliefs about the flag. -
Crisis at Central High School and the “Little Rock Nine”
information(picture)The Little Rock Nine were nine “colored” students who attended Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. These students were originally prevented from attending this school even though schools were supposed to be integrated. On their first day of school Arkansas National guard would not allow them to go in the High School. Many people threatened the students’ lives. On that same day the mayor of Little Rock asked the president to send troops to bring the students to and from class and school. -
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in ATL bombed
information(picture)This was a Jewish Temple bombed on October 12th, 1958. The people who bomber this synagogue used approximately 50 sticks of dynamite; no one was injured during the incident. This temple was one of the wealthiest and oldest temples in all of Georgia; it was also the center for civil rights activism. As a result the white supremacists bombed the temple. -
Sibley Commission
information(Piture)The Sibley Commission was set in 1960 to test Georgia's attitude towards integrating the public school system. After measuring Georgia’s reaction about integrating the schools the Georgia General Assembly declared that Georgia public schools should be desegregated. -
Integration of UGA
informationUGA refused to admit two African American students because of their race. On Friday, January 6th, 1961 Judge Bootle ruled that UGA had to be integrated immediately. The two students were soon accepted into the High School. -
Freedom Rides
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The Freedom Rides of 1961 was when African Americans decided to test the segregation of public transportation throughout the south. The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 protesting desegregation on public transportation throughout the south. It all started with seven blacks and six whites on a bus headed to Washington D.C. -
Albany Movement
information(picture)On November 17th, 1961 a desegregation alliance formed in Albany, Georgia. The SNCC or Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Ministerial Alliance, the Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Negro Voters League, and the NAACP or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were all groups involved with the movement. The protesters were nonviolent in hope to end all racial segregation in Albany. -
Birmingham Alabama Protests
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This movement was organized by the SCLC or the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the ACMHR or the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. This movement was organized in order to present the matter of unequal treatment between races in Birmingham Alabama. The protesters were nonviolent even though the authority clearly had other ideas on keeping all protesters in line. -
March on Washington DC
information(Picture)The estimated 250,000 people who participated marched on Constitution and Independence Avenue then met in front of the Lincoln Monument and shared speeches and prayers. The people were protesting against Jim Crow segregation and discrimination. -
16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
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16th Street Baptist Church was bombed on September 15th, 1963. The explosion killed four young girls and twenty-two other children were injured. The Ku Klux Klan planted the dynamite. This was a result of public schools recently being integrated. -
John F. Kennedy Assassinated
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On November 22nd, 1963 at Dealey Plaza in downtown Texas John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was riding in his uncovered limo when he was shot; he was declared dead in the Emergency room at Parkland Hospital. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime. -
Civil Rights Act 1964 Passed
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Kennedy was assassinated while the bill was still being question in Congress. On June 15th, 1964 the Act was passed 73 votes to 27. This act made racial discrimination illegal in all public places. This act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
informationpictureThis was a big part in US history. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Act. This bill prohibits racial voting discrimination. 78% of people voted for the bill and 22% voted against the bill. The bill outlawed discriminatory voting practices throughout the United States. -
Summerhill Race Riot (Atlanta)
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On September 6th-11th of 1966 in a Summerhill neighborhood a race riot started. 183 people were arrested, 35 injured in the incident. This whole riot started when an African American was shot because he was believed to be a car thief. The SNCC was believed to have caused the riot. -
MLK Assassinated
<ahref='http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Martin_Luther_King_Assassination' >information</a>pictureOn April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and killed by Mr. James Earl Ray. When King was shot he was leading a peaceful march for sanitation workers on strike. He was on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. Atlanta’s reacted by saying we had to fight back. -
All Georgia Schools Are Integrated
informationpictureMany schools in the south did not look forward to integration so they made the whole proccess drag on by on integreting one grade level at a tme, but finnally in 1971 all Georgia schools were integrated.
