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1946 Governor's Race/End of the White Primary
The 1946 Governors Race was when three men, Herman Talmadge, Lt. Governor Melvin Thompson, and former governor Ellis Arnall, were all told they should be governor when Eugene Talmadge died. In the end Melvin Thopson became governor. The End of White Primary was when African Americans had the right to vote, but some southern states made black codes to keep them from voting. -
Brown v. Board of Education/1956 State Flag
This was when the United States Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional and made segregation illegal. Also during this time the Georgia State Flag was changed to a Confederate Battle Flag. -
Segregation in Public Schools
Bnjamin Mays was the head of Atlanta Public Schools. The Sibley Commission ended segregation in public schools which lead to Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter being one of the first two African American students to go to the University of Georgia which was also the location of the Albany Movement. Members of the SNCC were there doing nonvilent protests to help end segregation. -
March on Washington
March on Washington was when many Americans, wanting jobs and freedom, went to the nations capital for a political rally. It is also the place where Martain Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Also Andrew Young became active in the Civil Rights Movement working with Martin Luther King Jr. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights act states how nobody should be discriminated or denied oprotunities because of there skin tone. Everyone should be treated equally. Soon after Maynard Jackson was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973 and was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Governor Lester Maddox disobeyed the Civil Rights Act by refusing to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant.
