Unit 11 Study Guide
1. During the 1946 governor’s race, what controversial events occurred, resulting in a Georgia Supreme Court ruling? Who was eventually selected governor?
2. What was the purpose of the white primary?
3. Which Georgia’s governor made the improvements to expanded schools to include grades 1-12, enacted a 3% sales tax in 1951 to pay for the Minimum Foundation Program for Education Act, and restructured the state highway department?
4. What was the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education?
5. Who was serving as president of Morehouse College and as an advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., and whose ideas became the foundation for the modern Civil Rights movement?
6. Why did Georgia legislators change the state flag in 1956?
7. What civil rights leader graduated from Morehouse College in 1946, was a pastor of his own church in Montgomery, Alabama by 1954, and committed himself to the civil rights movement after the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955.
8. Where was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech associated with below?
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9. What was the SNCC?
10. What was the purpose of the Sibley Commission?
11. What did the Sibley commission recommend?
12. Who was one of the first two African American students to be admitted to the University of Georgia?
13. Which of the focus of the Albany Movement in Georgia?
14. Of the following list which one did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did NOT integrate which of the following? Hotels, restaurants, churches, or public recreational areas.
15. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
16. What was the March on Washington was intended to do?
17. Who was the first African American mayor of Atlanta when did he/she serve?
18. Which Governor won office by being elected by the General Assembly rather than the people? Explain it occurred?
19. List the accomplishments of Andrew Young.
20. What did Lester Maddox accomplish as governor?