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Segregation and Civil Rights

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    Segregation and Civil Rights

    Segregation and Civil Rights by Brandon Kennedy

  • Benjamin Mays along with Joseph Nicholson publish

    Benjamin Mays along with Joseph Nicholson publish
    Ben MaysBenjamin Mays and coauthor Joseph Nicholson publish a study "The Negro's Church"

  • Benjamin Mays becomes president of Morehouse College

    Benjamin Mays becomes president of Morehouse College
    Ben Mays

  • Georgia Creates A New Constitution

    Georgia Creates A New Constitution

  • Eugene Talmadge elected, dies before taking office

    Eugene Talmadge elected, dies before taking office

  • 1946 Three Governor's Race

    1946 Three Governor's Race
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  • Herman Talmadge served brief governor term in 1947

    Herman Talmadge served brief governor term in 1947
    H TalmadgeShort Term

  • M.E. Thompson is said to be "proper" Governor

  • Herman Talmadge elected Governor

    Herman Talmadge elected Governor
    H Talmadge

  • Election for the Three Governor's Controversy

    Election for the Three Governor's Controversy
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    Herman Talmadge holds Governor's office

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    Brown vs. Board of Education trial

    Brow v. Board of EducationBoard unanimously upheld the decision of racial segregation and they violated the Equal Protection Clause of 14th amendment

  • Herman Talmadge elected to U.S. Senate

    Herman Talmadge elected to U.S. Senate
    Elected to U.S. Senate

  • Lester Maddox races against incumbent William Hartsfield

    Lester Maddox races against incumbent William Hartsfield
    Lester MaddoxMaddox lost the mayoral election

  • SNCC created

    SNCC created
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    SNCC was one of the key organizations to the Civil Rights Movement

    SNCCSNCC

  • Ernest Vandiver Jr. forced to make a difficult decision

    Ernest Vandiver Jr. forced to make a difficult decision
    Sibley CommissionVandiver Jr. is forced to make a decision between closing public schools or to desegregate them

  • Holmes and Hunter apply for classes

    Holmes and Hunter apply for classes
    Hunter and Holmesstudents chanted "2,4,6,8... We don't want to integrate!"

  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

    Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
    Hunter and HolmesHolmes and Hunter become first African-American students at the University of Georgia
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    Albany Movement

    Albany MovementFirst Mass Movement in the modern Civil Rights era. The goal was to desegregate the community

  • Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream Speech"

    Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream Speech"
    MLKMLK "I Have A Dream"

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    Civil Rights ActCongress passes an Act stating that people cannot be descriminated by race or sex as firing, hiring, or raising.

  • Maynard Jackson elected

    Maynard Jackson elected
    Maynard Jackson
    Maynard Jackson is the first African American to be a Governor in a Major Southern State

  • Lester Maddox and supporters turn away three black activists

    Lester Maddox and supporters turn away three black activists
    Lester Maddox

  • Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize for his activism

    Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize for his activism
    MLKMLK accepts Nobel Peace Prize

  • MLK Assassinated

    MLK Assassinated
    MLKMLK assassinationMLK was assassinated in 1968. He was in Memphis, TN. He was shot
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    Benjamin Mays President of Atlanta Board of Education

    Ben Mays

  • Andrew Young

    Andrew Young
    Andrew Young Andrew young elected Georgia's Mayor in 1981