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White Primacy is abolished in Georgia
Before 1946 Georgia did not allow blacks to vote in the primary elections. This was called White Primary and was ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in the 1946 King v. Chapman court case, and White Primacy was abolished.
info- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3610
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Integration of armed forces
Truman, preaident at the time, signed the order.The order stated that everyone in the armed forces should be treated equally.
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Brown vs, Board of Education
A young girl named Linda Brown had to walk around a mile just to get to her bus stop for the all black school she was attending. This infurated her father and other neighbors whos children had to do the same. Oliver teamed up with the NAACP and the took the case to state court where they lost. The supreme court ruled that the separate-but-equal policy was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In 1955 blacks were supposed to sit in the back of the bus, and whites in the front. On December 1 a black lady, Rosa Parks, rebelled by sitting in the front of the bus and when she was asked to move for a white person to sit, she refused. Rosa was put into jail and blacks all over the US began to rebel by not moving for whites.
info- http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm
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Change to Georgia's state flag
John Sammnos Bell, Jefferson Lee Davis and Willis Harden came up with a new design for the Georgia state flag. This new flag included aspects of the confederate flag, and upset many Americans.
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Crisis at Central High School and the "Little Rock Nine"
Nine black students were inrolled in Central High School, a white public school.On the second day one of the nine black students attemped walking into the school and was threatened to be lynched by the students. The National Gaurd watched this happen and didnt say a thing. This caused an uproar and then the Govener gave a gaurd to each of the black students and eight of the nine black students finshed the school year safley.
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Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in ATL bombed
Luckly nobody was killed or injured, but the explosion did cause a great amount of damage to the church. The men who were said to have bombed the church all belonged to anti-Semitic hate groups. picture and info-
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The Sibley Commission
Georiga's general assembly vot ed to stop funding to the schools that integrated. With this being said, The Sibley commission was established and they began to research and study the problem with schools being integrated. The commission interviewd many Georgians and they said that theywould prefer the schools close instead of intergrate. This is when many private schools were opened so white children could still attend segrated schools.
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Freedom Rides
Freedom riders were people who took public transportation into the Deep South testing the ruling of the Boynton v. Virginia which claimed that segregation on public busses was unconstitutional. There were seven blacks and six whites on board the first freedom ride. Freedom riders were attacked, beaten, and even set on fire, but they paved the way for more freedom rides to come.
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Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was an alliance between many Civil Rights groups including the SNCC, NAACP, and the SCLC. It was led by William G. Anderson, a doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. This movement educated many people on Civil Rights and acquired thousands of civilian followers. Although it did not achieve its goal due to the people in favor of segregation, it is remembered for its strategies and tactics during the Civil Rights Movement.
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16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
The Church was bombed on September 15, 1963. It killed four and injured twenty two more people. The bombers were Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert Chambliss. They were part of a KKK , the 26 kids were walking into the basement for a sermon and instead got blown by the bomb. info&picture-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing -
Birmingham, AL protests
The protests started on April 3, 1968, groups of blacks began marching and preforming sit-ins at restaurants. The blacks all got arrested, more blacks arrived and they too got arrested. Even kids began protesting and got put into jail. All the jails began to fill and then they began to allow the blacks to continue the sit-ins.
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March on Washington DC
This rally is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech which began to have to crowd lean towards integration. Some whites even agreed with King after hearing his speech. The protesters marched for jobs and freedom and it began to become a very important aspect in intergration. info-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom
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John F Kennedy assassination
JFK was shot while riding in the presidential limousine with his wife and the Governor of Texas, John Connally.The killer was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald did not get to stand trial because he was assassinated by Jack Ruby before it happend.
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Civil Rights Act 1964 passed
The Civil Rights Act ended segregation in public places. The act was signed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, the president at the time. Now in public places races would not be seperated by color. information- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil64.htm -
Voting rights Act of 1965 passed
This act was passed to enforce blacks voting rights. It was to stop prevention of voting by race or color. This act stopped unnecessary qualifications to votes such as literacy tests. This act was also signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and was another huge act in history.
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Summerhill Race Riot (Atlanta)
A four day riot that began when a supposed car thief was shot by a police. After the shooting the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was accused of starting the riot. Only one person died but twenty people were injured. info- https://forsyth.angellearning.com/section/content/default.asp?WCI=pgDisplay&WCU=CRSCNT&ENTRY_ID=45410FBEDC974071A31A36365D847171
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MLK assassinated
On March 4th 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. by James Earl Ray at a motel called the Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. James was charged with the crime and he tried to reverse his guilty plea many times but never succeeded.
info- http://history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass.htm
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All Georgia school integrated
Schools in Georiga began to integrate in 1961 but it became a very slow process. In an attempt to slow down the integration process, GA schools started to integrate by grade.Then 16 years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling every school was finally integrated.
info-http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/3090/04SP3090-Jordan.htm
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