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MlK was a famous civil rights activist and he was such a great leader during the movement. Following the leadership of Ghandi he lead peaceful movements to which led to greater reward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xXZhXTFWnE
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Andrew Young is still alive today. He was very big part of the civil rights movement and he had helped MLK in his protests. He was there at the assanation of MLK and after that he had been voted into the house of rep.
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The famous book created by Benjamin E. Mays
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He was the first black mayor of an economiclly booming city in the southern area. He was a great man who helped businesses thrive. He had worked a lot with airports hence the name of Harstville JACKSON.
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In 1940 Benjamin Mays became presidant at Morehouse college. He taught Martin Luther King Jr. while he was at the college, which he later became friends with, and mentored him during the civil rights movement.
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The White Primary is offcially no longer in place on this date. The white primary is when whites could only vote the first round.
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Started with the death of Eugene Taldmage. During the controversy Herman Taldmage, Ellis Arnall (outgoing gov\rner), and Melvin Thompson (lutinent governer) all claimed that they were governer and refused to leave. Later the government decided to have a re-election and Taldmage won. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zgc_7QypH0
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Following the three governers contreversy, Herman Taldmage is officailly put into office.
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He was a racist governer in Gerogia, he was the 75th, but while he was in office he was found to have a change in heart and went more toward blacks rights
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In this time Brown ended segragation of public schools. Oliver Brown's daughter had a longer commute to go to her segeregated school rather than the whites school nearby. This lead to a law suit which was fairly contreversal at the time on wether the school should be segregated or not. The desicion was made on May 17th 1954 which was ruled that schools would no longer be segregated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak
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This flag was Gerogias flag for almost half a ceuntry as it ended in 2003. It had became a problem when people had figured out that it was based of the confederate flag which was a symbol of racism to many. At first when the flag was passed it had no problems but when people had figured it then they were mad
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This Commison's job was to decide wheter of not schools were needed to intergrate
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In this time the SNCC was created so students would act upon the problem which was civil rights.
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The albany movement was a movement which had nonviolent protests to end segregation. By the end of this MLK had said they had failed, but belives that many have learned from their mistakes.
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On this day two black students attend UGA, an (used to be) all whites school
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On this day thousands of people listen to Marthin Luther King, a civil rights activist, as he gives the famous speech know today as the "I have a dream speech" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6wPrLzvqA
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When this law was passed it prohibited segregation and all acts of unequal voting,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So9nXctTK4I
