Civil Rights Movement in Georgia
1940s-1950s
1946 Georgia Governor’s Race
______Ellis Arnall’s term was ending and it was time to elect a new governor.
62 year old Eugene______was elected governor again for the _____time.
Talmadge ______before he was ______as Governor, therefore, the following men claimed they were governor of Georgia:
- 1. Ellis Arnall (Governor at that time)
- 2. Melvin Thompson (______Governor)
- 3. Herman Talmadge (Eugene’s ______)
Draw in the arrows
Brown vs. Board of Education
Three (3) Facts from the Video
•In 1950, seven year old ______, a ______student, tried to enroll in an______-white school in Topeka, ______.
•When she was ______entry, the ______helped Linda’s father _____ the Topeka Board of ______.
•The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that ______-but-______schools were unconstitutional (______).
Where was the I Have a Dream speech delivered and who delivered it?
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
•Lifelong ______, who taught at ______College and became the President of this college, too from 1940-1967
•Helped Morehouse College students to create the ______fraternity
•Served as the _____African American president of the ______School Board of Education from 1969-______.
Civil Rights Movement in Georgia
1960s-1970s
1960s-1970s
The University of Georgia
•In 1959, Charlayne ______and Hamilton ______applied to attend the ______and were denied.
•They ______UGA and in 1960, federal court ordered UGA to ______them.
•They graduated in ______from UGA.
Student ______Coordinating Committee (SNCC): An Atlanta-based organization for young African Americans to ______participate in the Civil Rights Movement.
- Led ______
- ______at lunch counters
- ______of businesses that would not serve blacks
- Registering ______
•The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in ______, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the ______protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four ______students in Greensboro, North Carolina.
•SNCC members decided to sit in the “______” waiting room at the Albany bus station.
•It resulted in the ______of more than 1,000 African Americans in ______and surrounding rural counties.
Sibley Commission
•Governor Ernest Vandiver chose John ______to head up this commission.
A respected Atlanta businessman, ______and Lester Lester Maddox
•Segregationist, who was elected ______r in 1967. He won after being______by the General Assembly rather than the ______.
•Declared that integration or desegregation would ______happen as long as he was in charge.
•In a weird twist of fate, Governor Maddox appointed more African Americans to ______and commissions than prior governors combined.
•Also, he integrated the Georgia ______.
•James “Jimmy” Carter
•Former ______of Georgia
•Elected the ______President of the USA in 1977-______.
•He is from ______, Georgia.
•Only U.S. ______President to come from Georgia.
Maynard Jackson
•In 1974, Maynard ______was sworn in as Atlanta’s ______and ____ African American mayor.
•He was Atlanta’s mayor from 1974-1978, 1978-1982, and from 1990-1994.
•Led the development & expansion of /
Herman Talmadge
In 1948, Georgians elected ______Talmadge Governor of Georgia.
Then again in ______.
Strict ______, who did not want to ______Georgia’s schools.
As governor, he increased______education from 1st grade-______grade + lengthened the school year to ______months + raised the standards for buildings, equipment, and school curriculum. Enacted a ______sales tax to pay for the Minimum, Foundation Program ______.
He was elected to the U.S. Senate from ______to ______.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
•Born in Atlanta, GA in ______
•Graduated from ______College in 1946.
•______preacher who led the ______Movement from 1955-1968
•Through ______, he led many______, marches, and ______
•Formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (______) in ______
•Helped to get the ______passed into law
•Won the ______in 1964
•______on April 4, 1968
1956 Georgia Flag
•1956, the state’s ______was changed to incorporate the St. Andrew’s cross, a Confederate ______.
•The flag was changed as a______to the desegregation of Georgia’s______. It was designed to protest ______-civil rights rulings such as Brown v Board of Education.
•African Americans were offended, by this reference to ______.
•The 1956 flag was damaging to Georgia’s tourism and ______industries.
•In 2001, the General Assembly along with Governor ______signed into law the flag below:
•president of the University of ______Association, Sibley was selected because he opposed integration.
•The commission was created to allow Georgia’s
______boards to vote on whether or not to ______their schools.
Although the Sibley Commission helped to______the violence that accompanied desegregation in other Deep South states, it also provided tactics that local school boards could use to ______the ______process
Albany Movement (1961)
•It was the first______movement in the modern Civil Rights Era to have as its goal the desegregation of an -______community (Albany, GA).
The goal of the movement was to ______the bus station ______rooms in Albany, Georgia
Civil Rights Act of 1964
•This law -______segregation in public facilities and discrimination in ______. It would also withhold federal ______from schools that did not end segregation.
•Public facilities are: restaurants, ______, movie theaters, hotels,______, and libraries.
•In the______, many whites were still resistant to ______.
•______Maddox ______to serve African Americans in his Atlanta restaurant, so he ______his business.
M. L. King’s march on Washington August 1964
What was the march and speeches purpose?
•______
•He helped to expand Hartsfield-Jackson ______Airport
•Helped to bring the ______Olympics to Georgia
Andrew Young, Jr.*****
•______preacher
•Trusted aide to Martin Luther ______, Jr.
•United States______to the United Nations from 1977-1980
•Increased programs for the ______.
•______- of Atlanta from 1982-1986 and 1985-1989
•Helped to bring the______Olympics to Georgia
•Currently, a professor at Georgia State University.
•______the airport
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