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Benjamin Mays
Mays became the president of Morehouse College. The reason he became famous is because his most famous student at Morehouse was Martin Luther King Jr.He was the school board's first black chair. He spoke at some length with Mahatma Gandhi, anticipating an exchange of ideas. -
Herman Talmadge
Talmadge helped a great deal with Geirgia's government and public education. He sponsored a bill creating the food-stamp program to assist the nation's poor.Talmadge also introduced the Rural Development Act of 1972, which provided grants and federally guaranteed loans to rural areas . -
Georgia State Flag 1920-1959
This state flag represented Georgia from 1920 to 1956. It includes the state seal which includes Georgia's motto, "wisdom, justice, and moderation." -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He used Rosa Parks bus boycott to gove a speech. On the night that Rosa Parks was arrested, E.D. Nixon, head of the local NAACP chapter met with Martin Luther King Jr. and other local civil rights leaders to plan a citywide bus boycott.King was elected to lead the boycott because he was young, well-trained with solid family connections and had professional standing. The rising tide of civil rights agitation produced a strong effect on public opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJTQubbS7VY -
3 governors controversy
For a short period of time, Georgia had 3 governors. Eugene Talmadge won his 4th term but died before inauguration. Herman was appointed by the state legislature, the lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson was elected, and Ellis Arnall also ran for governor. Then they had another election and Herman Talmadge won. -
Brown vs Board of Education
As a result, racial segregationwas ruled a violation of the Fourteenth
Amendment of the United States Constitution. This decision handed down by the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954, ended federal tolerance of racial segregation. -
Georgia State Flag 1956-2001
This GA state flag includes the Confederate Battle Flag and GA’s state seal. Some people felt that having the Confederate symbol on the flag supported segregation and was not a proper symbol for a state flag. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The SNCC formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. Sit-ins which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. They played a large part in the Freedom Rides aimed at desegregating buses and in the marches organized by King and SCLC. -
Sibley Commision
In 1960, Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them. The governor chose John Sibley to head the commission. A respected Atlanta businessman, lawyer, and president of the University of Georgia Alumni Association, Sibley was selected because he opposed integration. -
Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes
Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities. One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later.Charlayne Hunter-Gault holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. SHe was also a journalist. -
Albany Movement
The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962.From King's perspective the Albany Movement was a failure, but African Americans in Albany disagreed.Mass meetings were called, protestors marched, and by mid-December more than 500 demonstrators had been jailed. The leaders decided to call in Martin Luther King Jr. to keep the momentum going.
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March on Washington
video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjL1E3R9dF4
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. this new March for Jobs and Freedom was expected to attract 100,000 participants. President John F. Kennedy showed as little enthusiasm for the march as had Roosevelt, but this time the black leaders would not be turned down. -
Lester Maddox
Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, Maddox surprised many by serving as an able and unquestionably colorful chief executive.Despite such conflict, Maddox remained a popular governor with many of Georgia's citizens, paradoxically including many African Americans. He instituted such populist ideas as "Little People's Day," when average citizens could line up to meet with the governor. -
Maynard Jackson
Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990 following the leadership of Andrew Young. As a result of affirmative action programs instituted by Jackson in his first two terms, the portion of city business going to minority firms rose dramatically. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been in great measure responsible for the development of Atlanta's reputation as an international city. His election signaled the institutionalization of the revolution in black political power he had helped to create in Georgia. For the first time an African American mayor (Maynard Jackson) handed over the keys of a major city to another African American. -
Georgia State Flag #4 2001-2003
This flag includes the state seal in the middle with six small flags underneath. The six flags represent GA’s previous flags. -
Georgia State Flag 2003-present
In 2003 GA voters voted on a new design for our state flag. This is the current GA state flag.
