Review Terms/Events

1. Review Terms/Events • Brown vs. Board of Education • Sibley Commission • Integration of UGA • Election of Maynard Jackson

2. End of white primary in GA • What was the white primary? • Only white Democrats could vote in primaries • Party primaries are not real elections • 1946-Democratic party voted to abandon white primary

3. State Flag Controversy • Originally based on state militia flag from Civil War • Changed in 1879, 1920, and 1956 • Zell Miller made campaign promise to change, but never did • Gov. Roy Barnes (without referendum) changed flag in 2001 • Gov. Purdue proposed a vote and flag was changed again in 2004

4. Georgia’s Flags over the years Militia Flag Stars & Bars

5. GA’s Flags cont… 1879 Flag 1920 Flag

6. GA’s Flags cont… 1956 Flag Confederate Battle Flag

7. GA’ Flags cont… 2001 Flag 2004 Flag

8. SNCC • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1966 • 1960-sit in at Woolworth’s lunch counter • Founded at Shaw U (Raleigh, NC) • Congressman John Lewis & NAACP chairman Julian Bond were prominent figures • Issues-nonviolence, Vietnam, white liberalism, feminism, and black power • Events-sit-ins, Freedom Rides, freedom ballots, and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, March on Washington

9. Albany Movement • SNCC conducting voter registration drive • 7 local black organizations (+ SNCC) formed organization to end segregation in the city through negotiation rather than violence (called Albany Movement), 1961 • Year of mass meetings, protest marches, and arrests; county and surrounding county jails full • MLK, Jr. was asked to help; led several hundred marchers to pray at city hall • Movement seen as failure b/c many dropped out and city refused to integrate

10. March on Washington • August 28, 1968 • Freedom rides/buses brought protestors to Washington, D.C. • 250,000 protestors, 60,000 whites • Lincoln Memorial • John Lewis gave fiery speech; MLK delivered “I have a dream” speech • Televised event show the nation blacks and whites together • Musicians performed • No violence erupted

11. M.O.W. Demands • 1. Passage of "meaningful" civil-rights legislation at this session of Congress- no filibusting. • 2. Immediate elimination of all racial segregation in public schools throughout the nation. • 3. A big program of public works to provide jobs for all the nations' unemployed, including job training and a placement program. • 4. A federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in hiring workmen- either public or private. • 5. $2-an-hour minimum wage, across the board, nationwide. • 6. Withholding of federal funds from programs in which discrimination exists. • 7. Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment, reducing congressional representation of states where citizens are disenfranchised. • 8. A broadened Fair Labor Standards Act to include currently-excluded employment areas. • 9. Authority for the Attorney General to institute injunctive suits when any constitutional right is violated.

12. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • landmark piece of legislation • outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment • bill was amended prior to passage to protect women, and explicitly included white people for the first time • created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission