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Benjamin Mays Lifespan
Published The Negro’s Church, and, The Negro's God, as Reflected in His Literature. He also taught Martin Luther King Jr. and talked to Gandhi. He was part of the early Civil RIghts Movement. He shared some of Gandhi's ways with King. -
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Lester Maddox Lifespan
PicRan agianst hartsfield and allen and lost, he is a segregationist and wanted not to integrate schools and other public places. -
1946 Governors race/3 Governors Controversy
Eugene Talmadge was reelected for governor, but was dying of cirrhosis. His friends knew he might not be able to serve, so they told people to secretly write-in Herman Talmadge, his son. Eugene Talmadge died, but Ellis Arnall was supposed to be governor. People showed the write-in ballot for Herman Talmadge. Arnall didn't want to give up office because of the way this was done, but eventually, Herman Talmadge won. -
Brown V. Board of Education
A unanimous decision in the US Supreme Court labeled segregation illegal. Everything had to be integrated. Once this decision was made, many private schools for white kids only started popping up in the South to combat this new law. People in the South voted that they would rather not have school than have integrated schools! -
Georgia State Flag 1956
The Georgia State Flag was changed to include the confederate battle flag to celebrate the hundredth annivrsary of the civil war, but people said that this encouraged and symbolized segregation and Georgia's history of segregation, slavery, and racism. -
UGA integration
Racial Intyegration was finally achieved after allowing Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to be educated. Shortly after, they started to educate women. -
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Albany Movement takes place.
Video(These dates are to show that it started in fall and ended in summer.) The SNCC started a nonviolent protest and march with the goal of desegregation of an entire community. It was the first of its kind. After 500 were arrested, the SNCC called in MLK Jr. who was also jailed. With the lessons that he learned, he was able to succeed in Birmingham. -
March on Washington
Official SpeechThis was one pf the largest movements for Civil Rights, as 250,000 people participated in the march. This is where MLK Jr. gave his I have a dream speech. Malcolm X commented that this was a "circus." The spot where MLK Jr. stood is memorialized. -
March on Washington
Official SpeechThis was one pf the largest movements for Civil Rights, as 250,000 people participated in the march. This is where MLK Jr. gave his I have a dream speech. Malcolm X commented that this was a "circus." The spot where MLK Jr. stood is memorialized. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Official Text
This allowed for gender equality and racial equality. This also outlawed segregation.
