Civil rights

civil Rights timeline

By shawnman100

  • benjamin mays

    benjamin mays
    Benjamin Elijah Mays was an black amarican ministor,educator,sociologist, social activist
    and oresident of the more house college in atlanta from 1940 to 1967

  • herman Talmadge

    herman Talmadge
    http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/herman-talmadge-1913-2002 herman talmadge served as governor early in 1947 and again in 1948 to 1954
    1956 Herman Talmadge was elected to the first of four terms in the U.S. Senate. Joining Richard B. Russell Jr. as Georgia's junior senator, Herman Talmadge
    quickly established a reputation as a bad of desegregation and civil rights legislation.herman talmadge died March 21, 2002

  • LESTER MADDOX

    LESTER MADDOX
    was an american polotition who was the 75th govenor of the undited states fromk 1967 to 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Maddox

  • martin luther king jr

    martin luther king jr
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther_king_jr ing became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

  • brown v.Board of Education

    brown v.Board of Education
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education.

  • SNCC

    SNCC student nonvoilent coordanating committe founded in april of 1960 in georgia

  • SNCC

    SNCC
    http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc/videos/integration-at-ole-miss SNCC was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960.

  • albany movement

    albany movement
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrZ4utBse8 organization was led by William G. Anderson, a local black Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine The Albany Movement mobilized thousands of citizens and attracted nationwide attention, but failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition. However, it was credited as a key lesson in strategy and tactics for the American Civil Rights Movement.[1]

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
    Civil Rights Act is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United Statesthat outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender or national origin.

  • 1956 state flag

    1956 state flag
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)atured prominent Confederate battle flag and was designed by Democrat John Sammons Bell, a World War II veteran and an attorney who was an outspoken supporter of segregation