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OBJECTIVE: I will evaluate the role of Georgia in the modern civil rights movement
by..
a. describing major developments in civil rights and Georgia’s role during the 1940s and 1950s;
including the roles of Herman Talmadge, Benjamin Mays, the 1946 governor’s race and the end of the
white primary, Brown v. Board of Education, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 1956 state flag.
b. I will also be able to analyze the role Georgia and prominent Georgians played in the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1960s and 1970s; including such events as the founding of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Sibley Commission, admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne
Hunter to the University of Georgia, Albany Movement, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, the
election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta, and the role of Lester Maddox.
c. Lastly, I will be able to discuss the impact of Andrew Young on Georgia.
Benjamin Mays
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Minister, educator, president of ____________________________ and
eventually became chairman of the Atlanta _____________________________.
Began speaking out against segregations even before the
_____________________ movement began.
His beliefs greatly affected one of his students;
______________________________.
 Believed that all human beings should be treated with dignity and that
_______________________ of races was not consistent with America’s
democratic ideals.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Became a minister and national leader in the
______________________________________.
 Became the voice of a people.
Believed in using __________________ methods (marches, demonstrations,
boycotts).
Began the __________________________________________________- was
the leader of the group from 1957 until his death.
The Government Gets Involved
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A 1946 federal court ruling ended the _________________________ in Georgia.
_____________________________________: 1946 Governor’s RaceControversial election, in which two men
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(______________________________________) both claimed to be the rightful
governor. It was settled by the Georgia Supreme Court and a special election
that resulted in ___________________________ winning.
Let’s Go to School!
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Brown v. Board of Education
 1954 Supreme Court Case
 Said that _______________ but _____________ was unconstitutional.
 Georgia Legislators were ___________ this ruling and fought it in state.
Georgia Changes the Flag
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As a way to ___________ the decision (Brown v. Board of Education) the state
changed the stage flag in _______, putting in the confederate stars and bars.
The ______________________________ and _________________________
advocated to get the 1956 Georgia flag changed.
In 2002, ____________________, made changing the flag a major campaign
issue.
Supporters of the old flag claimed that it was a memorial to the
____________________ dead from Georgia and opposed any changing the flag.
Civil Rights Movement
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SNCC (_________________________________________)- organized in 1960
by college students who believed in Dr. King’s ideas.
Main focus was on stopping _______________ at public places and
____________________ black voter registration in the south.
 Used ____________ and other forms of non-violent protests.
1960: ________________________________
 Recommended that each school district be allowed to ___________ for
itself and that the state should not take away funding if a school
_________________.
______ was ordered to integrate in 1961 by the U.S. District Court in Athens.
________________________________________________- 1st black students
to enter UGA.
The stayed in school and because of their bravery, ___________________ of
Georgia High Schools soon followed.
Getting Political
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Albany movement
 A ____________________ movement that took place in Albany, GA from
the fall of 1961- summer of 1962.
 Used mass demonstrations, ___________, and boycotts to end
segregations in areas of the city.
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March on Washington
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August 1963- more than __________________ converged to Washington, D.C.
to demand __________ rights for African Americans.
Dr. King delivered his “_______________________” speech.
Landmark Legislation
-_______________________- passed in 1964.
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_________________ discrimination based on color, race, or religion in places
like restaurants, hotels, motels, and theaters.
Encouraged __________________ of public schools.
Made it __________ to discriminate in employment.
Prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex.
Shaking things up
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Lester Maddox was the ____________ of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 and he
believed strongly in states’ rights and ___________________.
Maddox ran for governor. Neither candidate won the majority of the vote, so the
______________________ elected Maddox.
Maddox surprised many people by putting more __________________________
into government jobs than ever before.
One of his most interesting ideas was “_________________,” a monthly event
where citizens were allowed to speak face-to-face with the governor in his office.
Georgia’s Progress
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In Atlanta in 1973, ______________________ (35 years old) became the
______ African American mayor of a major southern city.
Andrew Young
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In 1972, Young became a US Congressman, the first ____________________ to
be elected to that post from ____________ since Reconstruction.
President ________________ named Young ambassador to the United Nations
in 1977.
In 1981, he became __________ of Atlanta after Maynard Jackson