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Benjamin Mays was a minister and educator who became president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. Mays spoke loudly against segregation even before the Civil Rights Movement.
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Chapman is a 1945 court case between Primus King, a religious leader and barber in Columbus, Georgia, and J. E. Chapman, Jr., the chair of the Muscogee County Democratic Party. It ruled the white primary as used by the Democratic Party of Georgia to be unconstitutional.
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Georgia white primary was ended by a federal court ruling. This ensured that AA's had a real voice in the state's voting process.
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After Herman's father, Eugene Talmadge, died from illness, Herman was elected governor.The current governor at the time, Ellis Arnall, was made at the General Assembly and resigned which led to Melvin Thompson to replace him. Later, the GA Supreme Court said that the General Assembly doing was wrong, so Thompson stayed in office.
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The Supreme Court in Brown V. Board of Education that separate was not equal, and that segregation in education was unconstitutional.
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After the Brown v. Board ruling, Georgia legislators showed their feelings about school integration by modifying the state flag in 1956 to include the Confederate battle flag.
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Headed by Atlanta banker John Sibley, the Sibley Commission recommended that each local district decide the desegregation matter for itself.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s strategy of a peaceful protest was adopted by a group of college students who formed the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).