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The Election of 1946 and the ''3 Governors Controversy''
In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947. His son was elected governor. When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son Herman Talmadge as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governor. -
Brown v. Board of education
Brown v. Board of education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The year Andrew Young was ordained, a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama -
State Flag
Governor Roy Barns signed a bill to design a new flag becuase the last flag hurt the economy of georgia. The flag also included all of the past flags, and people didnt like it. -
Formation of SNCC and the integration of Woolworths lucnh counter
Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local WOOLWORTH'S store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. When the lunch counter refused to serve them they sat there and waited patiently to be served. -
Albany Movement
The plan was to boycott business that depended on black customers to survive until they hired black workers. African Americans marched in the streets and were arrested. Martin Luther King jr. was a big leader in these protest. He ecouraged people to do non violent protest. -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes to UGA
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Homes were the first black students to attend UGA but they had to file a law suit first. You also may know Benjamin Mays he was the longtime president of morehouse college. -
March on Washington
This is when Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream Speach. There demands were the elimination of racial segregation in public schools; protection for demonstrators against police brutality; a major public-works program to provide jobs and more.Represented a coaliation of several civil rights groups. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.The act was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. lthough many Atlanta businesses had desegregated before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lester Maddox remained stubbornly wedded to the segregationist Jim Crow policies. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.The act aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. -
Election of Maynard jackson as mayor of atlanta
Was the first African American mayor of Atlanta and one of the nation’s pre-eminent politicians. Jackson made political history in 1968 when he captured more than 200,000 votes statewide in an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate against fellow Georgian Herman Talmadge.
