A Civil Rights Timeline: Name:
Place the following postwar events in chronological order. Provide the appropriate year of the event and number them from earliest to latest with earliest being #1. If two events have the same year give them the same number. Use pages 418-493 of your text and your prior knowledge. If computers are available use the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Year # Events
1. __________ _______ March on Washington,D.C. (MLK)
2. __________ _______ Georgia gets 10th (current) constitution
3. __________ _______ MARTA begins service in Atlanta
4. __________ _______ HOPE scholarship program begins
5. __________ _______ Maynard Jackson elected mayor of ATL
6. __________ _______ Brown v. Bd. Of Ed. decided
7. __________ _______ White primary ends in Georgia
8. __________ _______ SNCC founded
9. __________ _______ Andrew Young elected mayor of ATL
10. _________ _______ 16th St. church bombed in Birmingham
11. _________ _______ Andrew Young elected to Congress
12. _________ _______ Braves baseball moves to ATL
13. _________ _______ Ellis Arnall ends poll tax in Ga.
14. _________ _______ Martin Luther King assassinated
15. _________ _______ Jimmy Carter inaugurated as President
Year #
16. _________ _______ FDR dies at Warm Springs and WWII ends
17. _________ _______ Atlanta hosts summer Olympics
18. _________ _______ County Unit System ruled unconstitutional
19. _________ _______ Civil Rights Act becomes law
20. _________ _______ Lester Maddox elected governor
21. _________ _______ Sibley Commission issues findings
22. _________ _______ University of Georgia integrated
23. _________ _______ Jimmy Carter elected governor
24. _________ _______ Ivan Allen elected Mayor of ATL
25. _________ _______ SCLC inaugurated in ATL
Bonus:
Who were the first two African American students enrolled at the University of Georgia?
Who threw out the first pitch at the very first ATL Braves baseball game in 1966?
Who as the first African American baseball player in the major leagues?