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The Civil Rights Movement's Impact on Georgia: Evolution and Key Figures

Explore the slow beginnings and significant events in Georgia during the Civil Rights Movement, featuring influential figures like Herman Talmadge, Martin Luther King Jr., and the legislative changes that shaped the state.

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The Civil Rights Movement's Impact on Georgia: Evolution and Key Figures

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  1. Mrs. Eby The Civil Rights Movement

  2. Slow Beginnings • Herman Talmadge • Governor (1948-1951) • After his father’s death, the General Assembly selected him to replace his father • Resisted desegregation of schools • Implemented GA’s first state sales tax • Money was used to improve public school systems

  3. Benjamin E. Mays • Distinguished African American minister, scholar, and activist • Presided over Morehouse College • Emphasized • The inherent dignity of all • Differences between ideals America and actual practices in American society • MLK used his ideas to further the CRM

  4. Brown v. Board of Education • In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled that schools must be desegregated • This ruling helped launch the modern civil rights movement

  5. 1956 Georgia Flag • In 1955, John Sammons Bell (GA’s Democratic Party Leader) wanted to change the GA flag to incorporate the Confederate Flag • In 1956, the General Assembly voted to change the flag • People received this change as a statement against the Brown v. Board decision • This move was seen as a recognition of GA’s Civil War past.

  6. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Principal leader of the modern CRM • He was a clergyman and advocate for non-violent protest • Attended Morehouse College • Began career after the arrest of Rosa Parks • African Americans boycotted the buses after Ms. Park’s arrest • Took risk to his own safety and that of his family to progress Civil Rights for all

  7. MLK continued • MLK led and participated in marches and protests calling for equal rights for all • Believed many problems were caused the economic inequalities in society • Killed by an assassin in Memphis, TN in 1968 • January holiday commemorates his birthday

  8. The Civil Rights Movement • SNCC • Sibley Commission • Integration of UGA • Albany Movement • March on Washington • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  9. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Group grew out of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) • Encouraged young people (both black and white) to use peaceful protest to gain equal rights • Sit-ins • Freedom riders • Protested by riding on segregated buses

  10. Sibley Commission • Gathered information about how people felt about desegregation • Founded by Governor Ernest Vandiver • Report decreased resistance against desegregation • Local school boards with methods to slow down the desegregation process • Desegregation finally began in GA in the late 1960s

  11. African Americans enter UGA • Charlayne hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first blacks admitted to UGA in 1961 • The Hunter-Holmes building at UGA is named after them, and it was the site of their registration

  12. Albany Movement • The goal of this movement was to desegregate the Albany, Georgia region • The groups involved: • SNCC • Youth Council of the NAACP • Baptist Ministerial Alliance • Federation of Women’s Clubs • Negro Voters League

  13. March on Washington • Site of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech by MLK, Jr. • Five goals of march: • Meaningful Civil Rights laws • Massive federal works program • Full and fair employment • Decent housing, the right to vote • Adequate integrated education

  14. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Signed by Lyndon Johnson • Three main provision: • Guaranteed equal voting rights • Prohibited segregation in public places • Banned segregation by trade unions, schools, and employers involved in interstate commerce or business with the federal government

  15. Lester Maddox • Became governor of GA in 1967 • Because he was popular with Georgians who favored segregation, many feared he would return widespread segregation to the state • Requested huge police presence at MLK, Jr.’s funeral which kept many blacks from attending

  16. African Americans Take Office • In 1973, Maynard Jackson was elected the first African American mayor of Atlanta- the first in a major southern city • Jackson encouraged a number of Affirmative Action programs

  17. Andrew Young • An aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement • Served as an executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference • First African American from Georgia to be elected to Congress since the 1860s.

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