• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
* Started when students in North Carolina
had a lunch counter sit-in
* Worked to register blacks to vote
* SNCC (Snick)
• Sibley Commission
* 14 member group organized to study the
problem of integration.
* Recommended that school systems would
decide to integrate or not.
• Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were the first
African American students admitted to UGA on January 6,
1961
• Albany Movement
* Led by Dr. William Anderson
* African Americans worked together to integrate the
bus station in Albany, GA
* The NAACP and SNCC organized protests
* 500 people were arrested
* Biracial committee was formed to study the concerns
of African Americans in Albany
• March on Washington 1963
* August 28, 1963 over 250,000 people
gathered in Washington
* Demonstrated to get the Civil Rights Act passed
* Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a
Dream” speech
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Segregation of all public facilities illegal
* Federal government could withhold money
from schools that refused to integrate.
• Maynard Jackson
* 1st African American Mayor of Atlanta
* Increased the programs for the arts,
expanded the airport, led effort to bring the
Olympics to Atlanta
• Lester Maddox – strict segregationist
* Became Governor in 1967
* Was elected by the state legislature not the
people’s vote because the election was too
close to call.
* Appointed more Africans Americans to state
boards and commissions than all other
Governors combined.
• Andrew Young
* Executive Director of SCLC
* Helped establish “citizenship schools” that
taught nonviolent organizing strategies
*An aide to Martin Luther King, Jr.
* 1st African American from GA to be elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives
* Served 2 terms as mayor of ATL
*Co-chair of Atlanta Olympic Committee
• End of the County Unit System
* Designed to maintain the power rural areas
there was a higher population in the urban
areas. (reduce the influence of the black vote)
*April 1962 the court ruled that the system
violated the 14th Amendment
* political power went to heavily populated
areas
*Gave black population an equal opportunity to
elect legislative representatives.
• Reapportionment
* One-person, one-vote concept – every
citizen’s vote should be equal to every other
citizen’s vote no matter where a person lived
* GA’s constitution violated one-person, onevote.
* General Assembly had to reapportion
(redraw) voting district lines so districts were
of equal population size
• Jimmy Carter
* 1962 elected to GA state senate
* 1970 elected Governor of GA
* 1976 elected President of the U.S.A.
* create Department of Education
* complete major civil service reform
* expanded national parks system
* Champion for human rights and fought for peace
even after his presidency.
• Two Party System
* In the 80’s and 90’s Georgians began to
elected more Republicans
* Before this the Democratic party tended to
dominate the elections in GA.
* Democrats had ruled the state for over
100 years.
* In 2002, GA elected its first Republican
Governor since Reconstruction
* GA became a 2 Party System
• 1996 Olympic Games
*Created world-class competition facilities
* Brought international recognition to GA
* Brought volunteer programs, educational
and training programs, and jobs to Georgians
* Atlanta was criticized for its lack of
infrastructure which led traffic congestion.