Civil Rights Movement By facebooker_188358221646918 Period: Feb 10, 1925 to Feb 10, 1985 Civil Rights Movement Jul 1, 1940 Benjamin Mays Feb 9, 1944 End of White Primary Feb 9, 1946 1946 Governor's Race May 17, 1954 Brown vs Boards of Education Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks Feb 9, 1956 1956 State Flag Jan 3, 1957 Herman Talmadge Feb 9, 1959 Sibley Commission Feb 9, 1960 Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Nov 17, 1961 Albany Movement Jun 1, 1963 Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington Feb 9, 1964 Civil Rights Act Jan 12, 1967 Lester Maddox Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr Feb 9, 1974 Election of Maynard Jackson Jan 4, 1982 Andrew Young