Unit 9 Graphic Organizer #1
1920’s- 1956
1956-2001
SS8H11a- Civil Rights in the 40’s and 50’s
Politics
1946 Governor’s Race
2001-2003
2003-Present
Black Leaders
Benjamin E. Mays
• President of Morehouse (40-67)
H. Talmadge, Thompson, and Arnall
• Mentor to MLK
What happened?
• Pacifist
1.Eugene Talmadge elected to 4th term • Minister, scholar, educator
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• THE leader of Civil Rights movement
2. Died before General Election
• “I Have a Dream” Speech-1963
3.
Lt.
Gov
Thompson
claimed
to
be
gov
Views:
• Believed in nonviolent protests
• fought desegregation of public
4. Write in campaign for H. Talmadge • Assassinated in 1968
King’s Life:
schools while governor of GA
• fought to prevent civil rights
5. Leg. to pick from “top 2” vote getters • Grew up on Auburn Ave (Atlanta)
• Grad. from Morehouse (1948)
legislation in U.S. Senate
6. Missing votes found for Talmadge
• earned Ph. D. in 1955 (Boston U.)
• supported programs to help
Protests
Georgia farmers
7. Talmadge took Governor’s office
1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott
Changing the Flag: 1956
1961: Albany Movement
• GA’s new flag w/ Conf. battle emblem 8. Supreme court against Talmadge
1963: March on Washington
went into effect 7/1/56
• many feel flag was changed as a sign 9. Spec. elec. held, Talmadge elected 1968: Memphis Sanitation Strike
Herman Talmadge
Career:
• Became Gov. in 1946 controversy
• staunch segregationist
• GA Governor 48-54
• U.S. Senator rep. GA 1956-1981
of protest
• Governor Griffin favored “massive
resistance” to desegregation
• Sen. Groover said the flag would
show “what we will stand for/fight for”
Who was involved?
Brown v. B.O.E.
• S.C. ruled that segreg. violated 14th am.
• Decision: public schools must integrate
• did not set deadline, GA put it off
End of White Primary
• 1900-1944 only whites vote in primary
• 1944 supreme court ruled illegal