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Benjamin Mays
DOB: August 1, 1894
DOD: March 28, 1984
He taught MLK to challenge segregation. -
Lester Maddox
DOB: September 30, 1915
DOD: June 25, 2003
He was a major segregationist, but appointed more African Americans to government positions. -
Martin Luther King Junior
Date of Birth: January 15, 1929
Date of Death: April 4, 1968
He was one of the most well known civil rights activist and earned a Nobel Peace Prize. -
Andrew Young
DOB: March 12, 1932
He successfully increased international investments in GA and was key to bringing the Olympics to GA. -
Maynard Jackson
DOB: March 23, 1938
DOD: June 23, 2003
He was the first black mayor and helped in providing contract work to black owned businesses. -
Hamilton Homes
Date of Birth: July 8, 1941
Date of Death: October 26, 1995
He was the first black male to be admitted to UGA and to attend Emory University's Medical School. -
Charlayne Hunter
Date of Birth: February 27, 1942
She was the first African American female to be admitted to UGA in 1961. -
Three Governors' Controversy/Governor's Race
Herman Talmadge, Eugene Talmadge's son, was a write-in-canidate for governor and people believed he should be governor because he was the previous governor's son. Ellis Arnall and other people believed he should be governor because he was governor before Eugene Talmadge. Melvin Thompson and others believed he should be governor because he was the lieutenant governor and his job was to take the position of the governor if anything happened to them. -
Brown v Board Of Education
Linda Brown, a black 7 year old girl, wanted to go to an all white school. Eventually, the Supreme Court got involved and overruled the Plessy v Ferguson case and declared segregated schools were unconstitutional. -
State Flag
This was important because the flag caused many problems for Georgia such as bringing down the economy because it had part of the confederate flag and it offended many people. -
Albany Movement
A desegregation alliance formed in Albany, Georgia by activists, the SNCC and the NAACP. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech, "I Have A Dream". -
Voting Rights Act
It prohibited states from placing any voting qualifications on voting or denying a citizen of the U.S. the right to vote based on race or color. -
Civil Rights Act
It "forbade discrimination on the basis of sex and race in hiring, promoting, and firing." This means that people weren't allowed to discrimate people of a different sex or race in hiring, promoting, and firing someone from a job.
