-
Summerhill Race Riot (Atlanta)
pic:http://tinyurl.com/7cbjnqw
info:http://tinyurl.com/6rnj689
The race riot starts with W.D.Dubuois. His Newws paper printed out thousands of Articles stating that two blackmen assulted a young white lady. These articles were later proven false, but the anger in the white men grew. This led to hundreds of white riders arriving in Atlanta with the mindset that they were going to kill the blacks. The end result left twenty five dead and more than a hundred injured. -
White Primary is abolished in GA
This started with the man that people might have forgotten about Primus E.King. He was a man who had a dream to end the white primaries in Georgia. He ended up succsesful, but it did not just fall in his lap. He filed a class action lawsuit against the Government stating that not allowing blacks to participate as a leader was wrong. Well the Democratic Party didn't like this so they brought outthe big guns. The brought Joeseph E. Chapman. He was the Chairman of this party at the time -
White Primary part 2
Mr. King faught until the end. He won with the court ruling that it is unconstitutional because it infinges on their voting rights.
pic:http://tinyurl.com/84cmwtn
info:http://tinyurl.com/7yafwgh -
Integration of the Armed Forces
info:
Pic.:http://tinyurl.com/793257y
President Truman was the father of this act and he said, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." With this single statement he will have forever changed America’s armed forces. -
Brown vs Board of Education
http://tinyurl.com/73j92j7The court rules that segregating schools is unconstitutional. This is happening at the time when the governor is pushing integration farther away from Georgia. This court ruling has change the fate of Georgia forever because the court always has a check on the executive branch of government. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
One day Rosa Parks rode the bus, but that is not all that she did. Rosa also whent ot jail for failing to let a white person sit down in her seat. It all started the bus got crowed and more people wanted to sit down and a White man asked Rosa if he could sit down. When this happens Mrs.Parks says a polite no and continues on the bus ride. Little did she know that the man whent to go get the police. In the end Rosa Parks is an American hero and led a rebellion against segregation,l and sit ins. -
1956 change to Georgias state flag part 2
This was that the soldiers and our belifes were to be honored witht the flying of the flag. This didn't only settle down the state, but it also helped ease the pane of the blacks because they felt a little better because the whites have the right to think what ever they want. Al though all of this is going on it didn't change the thought that it was a bad idea for it to be put on the state flag, but in the end it was added and we all seemed to get over it after a while. -
Change to Georgia's state flag part 1
The change of Georgias state flag cause alot of contravercy and quite a bit of kerfluffle in the GA political system. The cause for all of this kerfluffle was that the flag had the stars and bars that took up two thirds of the space on the flag. This cause so much trouble that the idea of the stars and bars on the flag was some crazy reason that would make everyone think better of the design. continued above... -
Crisis at Central High School and the“Little Rock Nine”
info: http://www.ark-ives.com/photo/gallery/central.asp
pic: http://tinyurl.com/6susdyo
This started when the national gaurd denied entry to the black students of Central Highschool. The soldiers were sent by Governor orval E. Faubus. This whent to court and the black students won and they United States Army was sent in so that the Little rock Nine ( the nine black students who were not allowed in) would be allowed to enter the school and be safe with the protection of the USMC. -
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in ATL bombed
http://tinyurl.com/7vzkzt7
This happened when the leader of the underground confederates said, "We bombed a temple in Atlanta. This is the last empty building in Atlanta we will bomb. All nightclubs refusing to fire their Negro employees will also be blown up. We are going to blow up all Communist organizations. Negroes and Jews are hereby declared aliens.". The Temple was bombed because it has the worship place for many Jews that were believed to be aliens, according to the leader of the underground confederates. -
Sibley Commission
http://tinyurl.com/7vnq2nz info
http://tinyurl.com/782uwa9 pic
This was a message that was sent from the united states Government to the Georgia schools. This said that if the schools did not desegregate the schools then all Georgia public schools would be shut down. If the schools did comply with the orders given then nothing would be changed and everything would gp back to normal in the schools of GA. -
Integration of The University of Georgia
http://tinyurl.com/7wjpay4info http://tinyurl.com/825m33
This was a moment is the schools history that ended one hundred and sixty years of segregation. The African American students that went to Georgia were two girls with the names of Hamilton holmes and Charlayne Hunter. This caused a big mess that the Georgia legislators wanted to clean up. the simple way that they thought that they could fix it was to stop the funding from coming into the schools that allowed blacks to join their schools. -
Freedom Rides
info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/rides#bottom_main
pic:http://tinyurl.com/6mjhcma
The freedom rides were the groups of desegregation supporters that hopped on a bus that started in the north and would eventually end up in alabama. The finshed result was not so pretty, but the way that the protesters went about their business was unlike anyother. It all starts off when a small group off protesters get to gether and hatch an idea that would shake the US. -
Albany Movement
info:http://tinyurl.com/7wtwzko
pic:://tinyurl.com/7o55avg
This was the city of Albany's cry fir desegregation for all of the states in America. This meant that the city went on a segregation fast to show everyone that it can be done. This got so much hype that Martin Luther King himself payed this event attention. it also allowed other cities to start the segregation fast that would soon be the new fad for the US. -
Freedom rides part 2
They were going to challenge the segregation laws from state to state. It started off calm and uneventful until the protesters started to enter the deep siuth and started to enter the media spotlight. Once the word spred riots did with it. it even got to the point were one of the busses carring the riders was bombed. It ends up in Nashville where they tryed to proceed with their plan but could not get passed the riots, so they turned back. When the riders finally stoped riding the police caught. -
freedom rides part 3
up with them and finnally arrested them in Alabama for a long time. -
Birmingham, AL protests
info:http://tinyurl.com/yard4j3
pic:http://tinyurl.com/7tscder
This was probably the deepest point in the fight against segregation. The main reasons for this is that the protest were violent and deadly. Thr protesters were not only threatend but sent to the hospital for speaking their mind and speaking the truth. The scariest part of all this is that the protesters were not armed while they were being sprayed down with fire hoses. -
March on Washington DC
This march was a message to the leaders of the US that if the blacks were not going to be treated right then they were not going to follow the laws correctly. The laws were cosen wisley that were going to be protested. The only laws that were protested were the ones that the protesters thought that were not correct in the slightest. This also brought Nation wide protests doing the same thing and witht the same mind set as the protesters in the steps of the White House. -
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
pic:http://tiyurl.com/7tgtzyu
info:http://tinyurl.com/auzfy2
This was a tragic event that could very well be the most dredfull day in the history of Brimingham Alabama. Not because of the the bombing but because of the four that it left for dead in that church. The worst of it all the court system and the authorities did nothing to convict only one of the bombers until 1977. This was probably seen as a day of greatness and superiority for the whites. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
info:http://tinyurl.com/3utsmtg pic:http://tinyurl.com/77yub46
The assassination of JFK was the lowest part in the history of this battle with the races. The killer was just another crazy person waiting their turn for insanity. The reasons for the killing is that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't like what JFK stood for and believed that hewas better off dead than alive. All in all the parade was a failure and the people close to the president had to wait ten months for the conviction. -
Civil Rights Act 1964 passed
info:http://tinyurl.com/82gq2
pic:http://tinyurl.com/6rk8el2
This was a major bill that was passed that said that there will no longer be major racial discrimination in America. Even though this helped it still did not change the thoughts of the everyday americans. The government agreed, but the citizens did not. Though this happened we got over it and the African Americans a=can ride the bus where ever they want and go to what ever water fountain they want. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
pic:http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAvoting65.jpg
info:http://tinyurl.com/74o8zqb
The voting rights act was brought to americas attention by Lyndon B. Johnson. He even said a very famouse quote "Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes.". This proposed thhe actual bill. This stated that it would be legal for the blacks vote to vote just as easlily -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
as a white person can. Although it ended well the way it went through congress with flying colors. It went throught the senate 77 to 19 vote and the house of Representatives was 333 to 48. -
MLK's assassination
silver platter. The mans name was James Earl Ray and his name will be remembered in infamy.
pic:http://www.truthmove.org/workspace/photos-content/JamesEarlRay.jpg
info:http://tinyurl.com/dew5h9 -
MLK assassinated
The assasination of Martin Luther King was the worst moment for many in the year of 1968. The death of JFk not long before had already lowered Americans confidence, but now we have the vietnam war to deal with. This was all made worse when president Johnson didn't run for re election. The murderer was none other than excaped convict that even bought the gun a couple of days before the murder. Like many others the man was not hard to find and the evidence practically put itself on a -
All GA schools integrated
pic:http://tinyurl.com/7hlmb9b
info:http://tinyurl.com/7bx9gov
When the schools in Georgia were segregated many children of all ages had to walk great distances to get a decent education. Even if a white school was located near their house the school would kick the kids to the curb. This all came to an end in 1971 when the US government ruled that all Georgia schools to be integrated.
