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