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  1. Brown v. Board of Education
    May 17, 1954
    Civil Rights Movement
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  1. On May 17, 1954, the Court stripped away constitutional sanctions for segregation by race, and made equal opportunity in education the law of the land.
  2. Over one-third of states segregated their schools by law.
  3. Brown v. Board of Education started off as five cases.
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  1. Benjamin Mays
    Born: August 1, 1894, Ninety Six, SC
    Died: March 28, 1984, Atlanta, GA
    Civil Rights
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  1. best known as the longtime president of More house College in Atlanta
  2. Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist
  3. He was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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  1. Dr. Martin Luther King
    Born: December 19, 1899, Stockbridge, GA
    Died: November 11, 1984, Atlanta, GA
    Civil Rights
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  1. Martin Luther King Sr. was an African American Baptist pastor
  2. Martin Luther King was also a missionary.
  3. He was the father and namesake of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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  1. Desegregation
    May 17, 1954
    Civil Rights
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  1. Exactly 62 years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional.
  2. In the decade following Brown, the South resisted enforcement of the Court’s decision.
  3. States and school districts did little to reduce segregation, and schools remained almost completely segregated until 1968, after Congressional passage of civil rights legislation.
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  1. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
    April 1960
    Civil Rights
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  1. The SNCC was often referred by its acronym and pronounced “Snik.”
  2. The SNCC was one of the main organizations that organized “sit-ins” in segregated lunch counters and other racially segregated public venues across the south.
  3. Former Washington mayor, Marion Berry, was the first chairman of the SNCC from 1960-1961.
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  1. Sibley Commission
    1960
    Civil Rights
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  1. Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents’ sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor.
  2. In 1959 U.S. District Court judge Frank Hooper ruled Atlanta’s segregated public school system unconstitutional and ordered it integrated.
  3. governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. tapped state representative George Busbee to introduce legislation creating the General Assembly Committee on Schools.
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  1. Hamilton Holmes & Charlayne Hunter
    8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995
    Civil Rights
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  1. Holmes. Hamilton E. Holmes was an American orthopedic physician.
  2. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
  3. Holmes graduated cum laude in 1963. Following his dream to be a doctor like his grandfather, he became the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine.
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  1. Albany Movement
    November 17, 1961
    Civil Rights
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  1. The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962.
  2. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community
  3. and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties.
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  1. March on Washington
    August 28, 1963
    Civil War
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  1. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
  2. 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial
  3. With Bayard Rustin, Randolph called for 100,000 black workers to march on Washington, in protest of discriminatory hiring by U.S. military contractors and demanding an Executive Order.
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  1. Civil Rights Act
    July 2, 1964
    Civil rights
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  1. It outlawed discrimination, ended racial segregation, and protected the voting rights of minorities and women.
  2. prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  3. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
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  1. Dr. Martin Luther King
    Born: January 15, 1929, Atlanta, GA
    Assassinated: April 4, 1968, Memphis, TN
    Civil Rights
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  1. King was the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
  2. At the Atlanta premier of the movie Gone with the Wind, Martin sang with his church choir.
  3. There are over 730 streets in the United States named after Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  1. Georgia’s 1956 State Flag
    1956
    Civil Rights
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  1. Perry, a Confederate colonel during the Civil War. He based the design on the Stars and Bars; the first Confederate national flag.
  2. The Georgia General Assembly changed the design in 1956 to a flag designed by John Sammons Bell, a World War II Veteran.
  3. The flag featured a Confederate Battle flag in its field.
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  1. Maynard Jackson
    Born: March 23, 1938, Dallas, TX
    Died: June 23, 2003,
    Civil Rights
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  1. American lawyer and politician, who was the first African American mayor of Atlanta
  2. He served three terms (1974–82 and 1990–94).
  3. Jackson’s father was a Baptist minister, his mother a professor of French. He entered Morehouse College through a special-entry program and received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history in 1956.
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  1. Lester Maddox
    Born: September 30, 1915, Atlanta, GA
    Died: June 25, 2003, Atlanta, GA
    Civil Rights
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  1. Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of GA
  2. He was a populist democrat
  3. He served from 1967 to 1971
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  1. Andrew Young
    Born: March 12, 1932 (age 88 years), New Orleans, LA
    Civil Right
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  1. an American politician, diplomat, and activist.
  2. He began his carried as a pastor
  3. served as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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