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He becomes president and greatly impacted MLK and encouraged students to challenge segergation.
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The thought that white's were more superior than other races and that they were more important,was deemed unconstitutional on April 1st, 1946.
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Argument on who should become governor of GA after Eugene Talmadge, the voted governor who didn't start office died. Between Ellis Arnall(previous governor), Herman Talmadge(Eugene's son), and Melvin Thompson(Lieutenant Governor).
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Argument between African Americans and the board of education on whether to allow blacks and whites go to the same public schools resulting in the intergration of public schools.
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GA's flag that dipicted the confederates flag on it, making people in GA look bad adn made them offended.
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Group made by government to study the problem of intergration.
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Organization that reflected nationwide trends on black activism, without any violence.
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The first African American to be accepted into UGA.
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The first African American women to be accepted into UGA.
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Movement in Albany by the groups NAACP, SNCC, and indivuduals where they protested segergation by sitting in white only seats.
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Political demonstration where people marched to washington D.C. protesting racial demonstartion and led by Martin Luther King Jr. Martin had his "I Had a Dream Speech."
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Act passed that made equallity between blacks and whites law.
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Act passed that gave all blacks the right to vote resulting in lots of African Americans joining the voting polls.
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Lester Maddox becomes governor of GA and appoints more African Americans to state offices than previous governors.
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Andrew Young was the first African American congressman in GA since Reconstruction and had a key role in bringing the lympics to GA.
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Maynard Jackson was made the 1st African American Mayor of Atlanta and helped out GA's economy.
