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White Primary is abolished in GA
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href='http://tinyurl.com/7hwl82b' >Picture</a> In the 1900's, Georgia's government ruled that only whites where allowed to vote in the primary elections. This was then repealed in when the Supreme Court ruled that the white primaries in GA were unconstitutional, in 1946. This allowed black voters to actually have an effect on the whole campaign. -
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Brown vs Board of Education
InfoPicture Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas concerning the segregation of schools in the area. His third grade daughter had to walk a mile to get to a black school. When a white school was just seven blocks from their house. The Supreme Court ruled that the schools will be integrated and Brown was very happy. -
The Murder of Emmett Till
InfoPicture Emmett Till was murdered by Joy Bryant and J.W. Milam on August 28, 1955 in Mississippi. Emmett Till was reported to be flirting with Roy's wife Carolyn. Roy was furious and kidnapped Till. He and Milam brought him to an old shed and beat him. They shot him twice, tied a barbed wire noose to a 70lb cotton gin, to be used as a weight, around his neck, stripped him nude, and thew him in a river. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Change to Georgia's state flag
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Crisis at Central High School and the "Little Rock Nine"
Infopicture The students at a white school in Arkansas called Little Rock Central High School scream and shout horrible things at the nine black students that will be attending the school after it was integrated. The nine had to be escorted in by the U.S. Army and the crowd was held back by the National Gaurd. -
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in ATL bombed
InfoPicture The Temple which was a Jewish reform school was bombed on the morning of October 12, 1958. Nobody was injured or killed in the explosion which blew through the side of one of the oldest and wealthiest Synagogues in Atlanta. The explosion was predicted to have contained around 50 sticks of dynamite. -
Sibley Commission
InfoPicture The Sibley commission was created in Georgia during the year 1960. The main objective was to create awareness and find the opinions of people on the subject of desegregation. Georgia's Governor was given 2 choices, desegregate the schools and break his promise to the people or close the schools down. Many of the Governor's surveys found that almost all the people would rather choose closing than have their child go to school with black kids. -
Integration of the University of Georgia
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Albany Movement
InfoPicture In 1961 a bunch of SNCC activists came to Albany, GA to rejister black voters to help promote desegregation of the city. Martin Luther King Jr. was also involved in the protests. He and alot of others where jailed. The Albany movement was just concidered a failure because the blacks didn't acheive their goal of filling the jails. -
Birmingham, AL protests
InfoPicture The same group of people from the Albany Movement came to Birmingham, AL to protest with their new knowledge of what to do and what not to do in protesting. They went through the streets shouting and chanting for desegregation in what was one of the most segregated towns in the nation. they recieved almost nothing in return except a few maybes and JFK stating that he will introduce Civil Rights. -
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16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
InfoPicture A white man that was part of a white supremecy group called the Ku Klux Klan or "KKK" bombed the church killing four inocent little girls. This followed the Birmingham protests which the man didn't agree that blacks and whites should be equal. This event sparked the civil rights movement and really made black protesters even more longing for desegregation. -
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
InfoPicture This act outlawed any use of a test or requirement that might prohibit blacks and women from voting. One example is the literacy test. The southern states would make sure there was a hard reading and writing test that blacks had to take to be eligable to vote. This method used to keep the majority of blacks from voting. -
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MLK assassinated
InfoPicture Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony outside of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. MLK was shot through his right cheek and the bullet traveled down his spinal chord. He died in the hospital later that day as the entire nation mourned his death -
All GA Schools Integrated
InfoPicture The Georgia school board was not listening and did not allow integration to all schools. The federal Government stepped in and basically told them back in 1969 that if they don't integrate the schools they will not provide any funds to the state's schools. Therefor Georgia was forced to desegregate schools everywhere by the time of 1971.
