7th Period Standard 11

1. Tyler Hubbert Brandon Gasaway
Sam Leclerc

2. • He increased the number of school months to 9.
• Increased funding for schools.
• A democrat who served as governor of Georgia in early
1947 from 1948-1954
• Created the Georgia Forestry Commission
• Elected in U.S Senate in 1956 and served until 1980

3. • African American minister, educator and activist
• A mentor to Martin Luther King Jr.
• Rejected racism and poverty.
• Published The Negro’s God.

4. • The “Three governor’s episode”, 3 different governors in one year.
• Ellis Arnall, the present governor during that time, figured he was still
governor because there was no one to replace him.
• Herman Talmadge thought he should be governor because he got
write-in votes during the 1946 election. He manipulated the Georgia
Legislature into electing him governor in early 1947.
• M. E. Thompson was elected Lieutenant Governer
• In the end, , Arnall left office. Talmadge accepted the Court’s
decision, and M. E. Thompson was governor until Talmadge beat him
in the September election.

5. • Andrew young was born March 12, 1932. He was born in
the United States of America. H e is an American
politician, diplomat, and a pastor. As a man he was one if
the leaders of the civil rights movement in GA. This was
one of the impacts that he had given Georgia. He was
also the Atlanta Mayor who greatly helped bring the
Olympics
to our city of Atlanta.

6. • The U.S. Supreme Court had combined these
cases under one name, Oliver Brown which is
where “Brown Vs Board Of Education.” came
from
• In 1954 NAACP) won a landmark decision .
• The main issue in each was the constitutionality
of state-sponsored segregation in public schools .

7. • A Baptist and civil rights activist, and had a big impact on race
relations in the U.S.
• Played a important role in ending legal segregation of African
Americans
• Received the Nobel Peace prize, among many other honors
• Assassinated in April 1968

8. • In 1956, Governor Marvin Griffin signed legislation to
change the Georgia flag.
• On February 9, 1956, the legislature passed the bill
approving this new state flag.
• People that didn’t like the new state flag were worried
that it was a bad reaction to the Brown vs. Board of
Education decision.

9.  Begun as a group that showed nonviolence, to give
younger blacks or people whom believed segregation
was wrong more of a voice in the civil rights.
 Became one of the movement’s where the sit-ins at
lunch counters closed to blacks and registration to
vote for blacks.
• Ella Baker and others involved in civil rights helped
set up the first meeting of what became SNCC.

10. • In 1960, Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. was forced to
decide between closing public schools or agreeing
with the federal order to desegregate them
• John Sibley headed the Commission
• Despite Sibley’s efforts to minimize support 60%
supported segregation
• During the voting period, a crisis arose

11. • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were at UGA
in the years of January 17, 1961.
• Hamilton and Charlayne were the first African
Americans to be admitted/registered at UGA.
• In September 2, 1960, they both filed a case against
Danner for refusing their applications.
• Judge William Bootie said that if they were not
African American they would have been admitted.

12. • The Albany Movement asked Martin Luther King Jr.
to help the campaign in Albany.
• King's failure did not mean that the movement failed.
• 1955 they prohibited segregation on the bus/trains by
Supreme Court.

13. • 1941–1946, organized by A. Philip Randolph
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took
place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
• Attended by 250,000 people
• Designed to pressure the U.S. government into
desegregating the armed forces and providing fair
working opportunities for African Americans.

14. • Ended segregation in public places and banned
discrimination on the race they are , color, religion,
sex and male or female.
• Took away all literacy tests and other racial voting
practices.
Legal segregation had been brought to an end.

15. • 1rst African American mayor of Atlanta
• He tried to fire the white police chief, John Inman.
• Jackson was forced to fire Eaves after a police exam
cheating scandal was uncovered
• Eaves was later convicted by a federal jury of
extortion in 1988.

16. • Lester appointed African Americans to state positions.
Earlier before that he was a segregationist and did not
believe in interrogation. He also appointed the first
African American to the Board of Pardons and
Paroles.75th governor of U.S state. He noticed good
improvements in Black employment