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Benjamin Mays
teacher of martin Luther King Jr.
speaker on segrag.ation at schools -
Lester Maddox
governor in 1967.
segregationist. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
boycotted bases in 1955
Beleived in non-violent legal boycotts against segregation. -
Andrew Young
1961 worked with SCLC
professor at GA state university -
The election of 1946 and the governors controversy.
Eugene Talmadge, Eurith Rivers, James Carmichael.
Herman Talmadge governor because of Eugene's prior death. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
NAACP helped the board, case went to supreem court.
Linda Brown tried to enroll into all the white schools. (Topeka, Kansas) -
Sate Flag
to show resistance to civil rights.
Was very offensive ad hurt the economy. -
Formation of SNCC and the interagation of Woolworth's lunch counter.
student nonviolent coordinating commitee.
organation of AA students. -
Albay movement
Freedom riders go to albany to support movement
hundreds were in jail. -
Admission of Charhyne Hunter and Hamilto Holmes of UGA
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March on Washington
200,000 people went to Washingto for political rally
MLK "I have a dream" speech -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
made segregation of all public facillities illigal.
prohibits discrimination in buisness. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
allowed millions of AA to vote in the south.
added to registration of voters in the south -
Election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlata
