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White Primary is abolished in GA
Mrs. Winkie told us this in class. Notes from Angel Learning were used in the creation of this event. White Primary prohibitted blacks from voting in primary elections. It was abolished in Georgia when it was brought to court, because it didn't abide by the U.S. Constitution. -
Integration of the Armed forces
Truman Library Harry S. Truman signed the order for integration in the armed forces. He also wanted to eliminate desegregation in the now integrated forces. He had done this after seeing how badly the black WW2 veterans were being treated. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Wikipedia: Brown vs. Board of Education The case, Brown vs. Board of Education, discussed how seperate segregated public schools were unconstitutional, because it violated the 14th amendment. The case resulted in public schools integrating. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Wikipedia: Montgomery Bus Boycott
The bus boycott in Montgomery was supposed to protest again seperated seats on the busses. Blacks had uncomfortable seats and whites had better seats. Rosa Parks had been sitting in the white section. When a white man demanded her to move, she refused. She was arrested on December 1st. The movement lasted another nineteen days until segregational seating on busses was claimed to be unconstitutional. -
Georgia Flag is Changed
New Georgia Encyclopedia After the public schools had bee integrated, John Sammons Bell began a campaign to change the Georgia state flag. His replacemet flag was similar to the previous, except the red and white bars were removed and a confederate flag took its place. Two state senators had agreed with Bell: Jefferson Lee Davis and Willis Harden. Harden and Davis helped bring the flag into legislation. -
(Continued) Georgia Flag is Changed
New Georgia Encyclopedia This resuted into a change of the previous flag. One of the voters of the House of Representatives, Denmark Groover, informed the press that the flag symbolized the support for segregation. -
(Part 1/4) The Little Rock Nine and the Central High School Crisis
Wikipedia: Little Rock Nine The Little Rock Nine were the first nine African-Americans to attend Cenral High School, a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Before the Brown vs. Board of Eucation court, the school had been seregated and only whites could attend. -
(Part 3/4) The Little Rock Nine and the Central High School Crisis
Wikipedia: Little Rock Nine After the confrontation, President Eisenhower summoned the governor, Orval Faubus, to meet with him. They discussed the actios of the govenor by summoning the Arkansas Natonal Guard and blocking the students from entering the school. Eisenhower warned Faubus, hoping that he would follow Supreme Court rules. -
(Part 4/4) The Little Rock Nine and the Central High School Crisis
Wikipedia: Little Rock Nine Woodrow Mann, the Mayor of Little Rock, asked President Eisenhower to send troops to support the school integration law and protect the nine students.
Eisenhower acknowledged and took control of the Arkansas National Guard. (Pic from link) -
(Part 2/4) The Little Rock Nine and the Central High School Crisis
Wikipedia: Little Rock Nine After the case, the school was desegregated, but when the Little Rock Nine left their homes to attend the school, they were confronted by the Arkansas National Guard. -
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple in Atlanta is bombed
Wikipedia: Bombing of the Hebrew Conregation Temple The temple was bombed by an underound confederatacy suporting group that enforced segregtion towards Jews and Blacks. They had bombed the temple so that their group could be noticed. It was also to their convienence because it damaged Jewish property. -
The Sibley Commission
New Georgia Encyclopedia (used Mrs. Winkie's angel learning notes too) When desegregation in public schools became a major "problem", the Sibley Commission was formed. The leader, John Sibley, interviewed residents to gather their opinions on the integration of the school systems. He discovered that many of the residents would perfer the schools to close rather than be integrated. -
(Continued) The Sibley Commission
New Georgia Encyclopedia The result was that private schools were made for white kids that wanted to avoid going to school with black people. -
Integration of UGA
UGA Integration (pic from http://www.wimba.com/customers/customer-spotlights) The Govenor of Georgia supported the desegregation of Georgia Schools. This meant, when UGA was to be desegregated, the govenor wouldn't try to stop it. Hamilton Homes and Charlayne Hunter were the first blacks to attend UGA. The nearby resients begged for UGA to be closed instead, but both students attended and graduated from UGA. -
Freedom Rides
PBS: Freedom Riders The Freedom Rides were when Blacks tested the desegregation of the busses by riding busses into the south. During their rides, they would visit areas reserved only for whites. They would wait until they got what they wanted. -
Freedom Riders: Alabama
PBS: Freedom Riders In Alabama, two buses full of freedom riders drove on the streets. Their destinations were Aniston and Birminghm. Both busses had been attacked violently by the KKK and other racists. -
Albany Movement
Albany 1961 (used notes from Angel Learning aslo) The Albany Movement was a movement in Albany, Georgia, that tried to desegregate everything and to test their acomplishments It was started by William G. Anderson. Martin Luther King Jr. joined in and helped. During the movement, King and oher protesters had been jailed. -
Protests in Birmingham Alabama
Civil Rights King and his fellow blacks left Albany for Birmingham. King's plan, known as "Project C", was to acomplish the same things that they did in Albany, but in Birmingham. They used nonviolent prostestng and boycotts. The police attacked the innocent blacks, which at this point, started the spread of public sympathy for the blacks. -
March on Washington DC
Wikipedia: The March on Washington DC The blacks were ready to claim their freedom. They had marched all the way to Washington DC for jobs and other freedoms. This is when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. The spech set of a spark that helped bring up the hopes of the protesters. -
16th Street Baptist Church is Bombed
Wikipedia: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (Pic from http://students.cis.uab.edu/allic14/16thstreetinfopage.html) The KKK had planted a bomb in the basement of a black churh in Birmingham. They intende to weaken the blacks emotionally by destroying their church. Four girls were killed in the explosion. -
JFK Asasination
Wikipedia: JFK Asaination (Picture from link) The Asasination of JFK took place in Dallas Texas. He was in his car with his wife waving to the crowd when a rifle bullet passed through his head. -
Civil Rights Act
Wikipedia: Civil Rights Act (Pic from link) The Civil Rights Act was passed, making all of the forms of racial discrimination illegal. The act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Wikipedia: The Voting Rights Act (Pic from link) This act removed the voting restrictions on African Americans. This too, was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Atlanta's Summerhill Race Riot
A riot took place in the neighborhood when a black man was shot by a police officer. The riot lasted for four days until everybdy calmed down. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Wikipedia: Assassination of Martin Luther King James Earl Ray, a fomer fugitive, shot Martin Luther King Jr. while he was standing on the balcony of the second floor of the Lorraine Motel. Atlanta's govenor had refused to take down the state flag in MLK's honor. He had summoned the state's troopers and told them to shoot any protester who tried to take it down. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Continued)
Wikipedia: Assassination of Martin Luther King The flag flew until the govenor found out that it was a federal command to lower the flag. (Pic from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/) Violence was spread across the city. -
All Schools Integrated
VA Encyclopedia (Picture from http://yourblackbloggers.net/?p=562) After all the resistance that the goverment of Georgia had encouraged, they finally grew sick of resisting and gave up. This resulted in the integration of all of Georgia's schools.
