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This is when WW2 ended and all troops came home including African Americans.
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President Harry S. Truman decided to make the President's Committee on Civil Rights
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He addressed the NAACP and became famous for doing so.
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He issued executive order 9981 that "gunned down" segregation in the armed forces
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Oliver Brown sued a white elementary school and it went all the way to the Supreme court. The court deemed the segregating schools was unconstitutional.
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Since Georgia supported "massive resistance" and didn't integrate schools, Georgias Governor created a committee to find out the public opinion about integration in public schools. Led by Atl. attorney John Sibley.
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The first 2 African American were accepted to UGA. Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter.
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Laws were rejected so that gave the Georgia Assembly the power to withhold funds for public schools that integrated.
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All of Atlanta's public schools now accepted both colored and white people.
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