Voting rights Act of 1965
Albany Movement
White Primary
Benjamin Mays
Sibley Commission
1956 State Flag
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
investigation by lawyer John Sibley to determine what should be done about integration in the state public schools
controversial flag that flew over Georgia from 1956-2001. The flag was controversial due to the flag’s prominent Confederate Battle emblem.
- prohibited states from imposing any voting qualifications on their citizens
Protest led by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, whose primary objective was to desegregate the city of Albany.
organization by college students that urged non-violent protests to gain integration;
-forbid discrimination on the basis of race and sex in hiring, firing, and promotion.
president of Morehouse College and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- tactic used by whites in Georgia to prevent blacks from voting in the Democratic primary;
