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MLK Jr. Info
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Benjamin Mays
In 1940 Mays became the president of Morehouse College.There he rose to national prominence, enjoying great influence on key events in U.S. history. His most famous student at Morehouse was Martin Luther King Jr. During King's years as an undergraduate at Morehouse in the mid-1940s, the two developed a close relationship that continued until King's death in 1968.Mays's essays and sermons throughout his years at Morehouse related these ideas, their clearest explication came in his book -
How Herman Talmadge remembers the governor race
Governor RaceThis is how he remembers it. The governors Race -
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Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia for a brief time early in 1947-1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980. Talmadge was a staunch opponent of civil rights legislation, but he began to reach out to black voters in the 1970s.Talmadgeimproved public schools by tax..Talmadge took office as governor in January 1947.Talmadge was governor from 1950-1954. -
Brown Vs Board of Education Video
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Brown vs Board of Education
In December, 1952, the U.S. Supreme Court had a case about segregation in schools. The case was Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The case was that She was not allowed to go to a all white school. It was ordered that segregation was unconstitutional and unequal.In the Brown II case a decided year later, the Court ordered the states to integrate their schools. -
State Flag
The 1956 flag design specified the same blue canton as defined in 1902, stamped with the Great Seal of the State of Georgia, similar to the flag that flew from some time in the 1920s. The Confederate Battle Flag was incorporated as the flag's field -
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He helped people talk wabout what was happening about the rosa parks boycotts. Boycott was 381 days.On December 21, 1956, King was among the first passengers to board an integrated bus. -
Lester Maddox
Maddox created a forum for anxieties shared by white working-class Atlantans, mostly over the issues of segregation and governmental corruption.As governor he backed significant prison reform, an issue popular with many of the state's African Americans. He appointed more African Americans to government positions than all previous Georgia governors combined, including the first black officer in the Georgia State Patrol and the first black official to the state Board of Corrections. -
Hamilton Homes and Charlayne Hunter
They were denied entrance at UGA even though they were highly qualified. This case went to federal court. This caused angry protests because they were not allowed in the school. Angry protestors threw rocks and bricks at the buildings and the schools as a retaliation. They werer treated badly but they got into UGA. -
SNCC
This was formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movment.Played a large part in the Freedom Rides aimed at desegregating buses and in the marches organized by King and SCLC.One of the major civil rights organization. Focused on peaceful non violent change. Cause integration at the University of Georgia. Mostly High school and college students. -
Sibley Commision
Sibley was selected because he opposed integration. Although a staunch segregationist, Sibley also believed that massive resistance was futile. They found that 60 percent of the population wanted segregation in Georgia and would rather shut the schools down than integrate. Made UGA desegregated and every other school. -
Albany Movement
A succesful failure SNCC tried to organize peaceful protest to desegregate the South west city of Albany. Police put so many of the protestors in jail that there were none left to protest. The SNCC and the NAACP also protested alsong with other african americans. -
March On Washingon
In 1963 over two hundred thousnad civil right activist gathered in the capital of Washington D.C. This is where Mmartin Luther King Jr gave his " I have a dream speech". This march led to the passage of 1963 and the peaceful protest of 1965. -
Martin Luther King leads the March on Washington
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Civil Rights Act
Thie act ended segregation in all of the public places. This also desegregated employment (Hiring and firing people.) This urged equal treatment for everyone no matter of their race. This act was introduced by John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson signed it.The southern members of the legislative didnt agree with this but was passed anyway. -
Maynard Jackson as Mayor of Atlanta
Jackson entered Morehouse College through a special early-entry program and graduated in 1956, when he was only eighteen.Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city.At that time Atlanta's black political leaders planned to elect an African American in 1977.Jesse Hill and Herman J. Russell joined Jackson's 1973 mayoral campaign.He finished the airport and had his name in the airport.Treated blacks right helped jobs.
