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Integration of the Armed Forces
armed forcesPresident Truman signed the order. It happened in 1948. President Truman decides to sign it because he wanted to end segration. He signs it on July 26, 1948. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
It was a decision to seprerate blacks and white from schools. Then happened Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896, which led to segregration. In 1954, the Warrens court said it wasnt fair, it was unequal. What happened was that it was violation of the fourteenth amendement. The ruling made way for intregation and the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event was a social nd politcal protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. It opposed the segregation of blacks and whites on buses. it was caused by Rosa who wouldnt give up her seat to a white person, she was arrested. Then a federal ruling, Browder vs. Gayle, happened and took effect. That led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared it wasnt unconstitutional. -
Change to Geogia's State flag
In 1955, the movement to put the old flag back. John Sammons Bell, Jefferson Lee Davis, and Willis Harden introduced the bill. Some said it was a honor to the centennial of the civil war. Others thought it symbolized Georgia's resistance to integration. In 1998 it became an issue to change te flag. Then, in 2001 they changed the flag. Finally, in 2003 they changed the flag again and left it that way since today. -
Crisis at Central High School an the "Little Rock Nine"
It was a group of African Americans that were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. The crisis was, in which students were prevented from from entering the racially segregated school.On the first day national guards from Arkansas wouldnt let them in. They were also followed by mobs, that were threating them to lynch. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, 1954. The decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools unconstituanial. -
Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in ATL bombed
Its the center of the jewish culture in atlanta. Its the oldest in atlanta, and was established in 1860. During the time 1950's and 60's the temple was the center of the civil rights adovacy. Whit supermiciasts bombed the temple in reponse, but there were no injuries. There were arrests but no convictions. -
Sibley Comission
Most state schools didnt want to integrate. In 1955, GA's General Assembly voted to cut off funding schools that integarted. The Comission was to study the problem of school integration. It was ruled by John Sibley. They interviewed georgians to find out how they felt, and as a result, they found out that they rather close the schools down than integrate. Comission said that the schools could decide for themselves if they followed federal law and integrate. Cities started to open private schools -
Albany Movement
In 1955 the Supreme Court make decision that makes segregation in interstate bus and train stations illegal.In Novembeer 1961 workers with th NAACP and SNCC decided to test by sitting in white only section of albany buses. In december the freedom riders arrived and sat in the whit only section and they ended up getting arrested and jailed. this went on for a while and 500 people were in jail or out on bond, including MLK. A biracial committee was formed to study the concerns of Arican Americans. -
Freedom Riders
They were civil rights activists who rode buses that were segegrated into southern states in 1961. Also following years to test the U.S Supreme Court decision. The first ride was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 7. They provoked violent distractions. They also called national attention to disregard the federal law, and the local violence used to enforce segregation in the southern states. -
Integration of The University of Georgia
UGACharlayne Hunter and Hamiliton Holmes get to UGA with a police escort. UGA Alumni and GA politicians asked the governer to close down the unversity instead of letting them go. The governer says no. During the election he promised to keep GA schools segregrated. Holmes graduated and became an orthopedic sergant, and Hunter became a nationally known newspaper and TV reporter. This made UGA calmer about segregation. -
Birmingham, AL protests
Birmingham It was a campiagn movement. The point of it was to bring some attention to African Americans.