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For a breif period Georgia had 3 govenors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term but he died. His son Herman took his place and was appointed by state legislator. The end of white primary was southern states of U.S. had any non-white voters were prohipted from voting.
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Herman TalmadgeHerman was the son of Eugene Talmadge when his father died he got elected into office, he followed his father into polotics.
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Brown vs board of educationThis was a U.S. Supreme Court case and the court delcared Stae laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutioal.
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MLKRosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person at the frront of the bus, so Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Georgia people wanted a flag to represent the old Confederate flag. Some people belived it was to honor the dead of the civil war.
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Most schools refuse to intergrate and a bill was passed that if a school agreed the state would cut their funding. The Sibley commission was to help the problem of intergration of schools
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It was founded by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement intiated by 4 black college students.
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Albany movementWorkers from NAACP and SNCC wanted to test the rule that segergation was illegal on buses and train stations and sat in white only section at an Albany GA train station.
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Federal court said that African American students named Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were to attend UGA. Georgia officals cut off funds to UGA, and people were scared UGA was gonna close down.
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The march was for jobs and freedom. One of the largest political rallies for human rights in U.S. history and demanded rights fro African Americans.
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On this day congress met to vote on this act. It outlawed segergation of African Americans and women.
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Marynard Jackson mayor of ATLHe was an American poloticion, a memeber of Democratic party and first African American mayor of ATL.
