The major developments in civil rights and Georgia



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Georgia and the Modern Civil Rights Movement

SS8H11 – The student will evaluate the role of Georgia in the modern civil rights movement.

Lesson One (SS8H11a) – The student will describe the major developments in civil rights and Georgias role during the 1940s and 1950s to include the roles of Herman Talmadge, Benjamin Mays, the 1946 governors race and the end of the white primary, Brown vs. Board of Education, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 1956 state flag.
In the 1940s and 1950s, ______________took a __________role in the demand for ________________for African Americans in the U.S.:
1. The influence of________________________________, ____________of the __________________________________________________Movement

Minister & educator; ________________of _________________College in Atlanta

Heavily influenced by the ___________________teachings of _________________

Believed that _______human beings must be treated with ________________

Spoke out ______________segregation _________the Civil Rights movement began

Became a __________and _____________figure to________________________.


2. The influence of____________________________., _____________of the Modern Civil Rights _______________

Born in______________, GA

Studied at ________________College under ______________________________

Believed in ______________________methods of ____________to bring about___________________: marches, demonstrations, and boycotts.

Led a _____________________that __________bus segregation in Montgomery,____.

Founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (__________) to lead____________________________________________.


3. THE _____________________________GETS___________________!!!


  1. In 1946, the _________ruled that the Democratic ______________________in Georgia was an unconstitutional _______________of the ____ Amendment (the equal protectionclause).


B. The ___________________________________________________– In November 1946, Eugene ____________________was elected for a __________________as governor, but __________before taking office. A struggle ensued, with three men claiming the office.
_____________Talmadge – the ________of Eugene Talmadge

Ellis _____________– the ______________Governor

Melvin E. ___________________– the ______________________Governor

The contested ________________was challenged in___________, and the GA ____________________Court determined that M.E. _______________________was the legal__________________________.
C. _____________________________________of Education

In 1954, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (________)________a landmark ___________________in the United States Supreme Court. According to the Supreme Court, _________________schools were _____________________________(the equal protectionclause).
Separate but equalwas now ____________because….__________________________________________!!!
Many ____________________states __________________________the Supreme Courts__________________, including ____________________…

MASSIVE RESISTANCE!!!



In 1956, to demonstrate its ___________________________with the___________________, GA ________________its state ___________to include the _____________________________________battle flag.
_______________1956

_______________1956

Lesson Two (SS8H11b) – The student will analyze the role Georgia and prominent

Georgians played in Civil Rights, including the founding of the SNCC, Sibley

Commission, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter at UGA, Albany Movement, March

on Washington, Civil Rights Act, the election of Maynard Jackson, and Lester Maddox.

By the 1960s, the ________________________________Movement was well underway and was gaining momentum (SS8H11b):
1. The founding of the_________________:

Several students adopted ________________ strategy of _______________________protest and _________________the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

One of the _____________of ______________was Georgia native and Morehouse College graduate,______________________. Bond was later ____________to the U.S. ________________for_____________________.

SNCC used __________________ at _________________________and later _____________________to _____________voter ___________________________in the South.


2. The _______________________Commission:

After ______________were ordered ______________________in 1954 by the________________________________, Georgia ______________to _________________and threatened to ______________________any schools that_______________________________.

In 1960, Georgias government formed a ____________________to ask ___________________________how they __________about the matter. The commission was _____by influential Atlanta ____________John________________.

According to the Commissions findings...…________ had_____________________________. Therefore, Sibley recommended:

a) __________school ____________should be able to ___________for itself their own ______________on ______________________________

b) _____________laws ________________integrated schools should be ________________________

3. The __________________of the______________________________________:

By order of the ____________________________________in_____________, GA, the University of Georgia was _____________to be______________________.

Despite angry _____________and___________, Charlayne ___________and Hamilton _____________became the ____________two ___________________________________to enroll at__________.
4. The__________________________________________:
From fall 1961 to summer 1962, a ________________________movement took place in______________, GA, involving the _________and________________.

Goal – Bring ____________________________to the Civil Rights ______________by ____________all types of _________________in ______________(buses, trains, libraries, hospitals, juries, etc. ).

In order to draw American attention to Albany, the __________and ____________recruited……__________________________________________.!!!

Despite Kings assistance, the _____________movement ___________________…



a) By December 1961, 500 _________________were___________________.

b) Albanys ___________chief used ____________tactics to avoid_______________________________________.

c) The ___________and the ___________were often at ________with one another.

d) The __________movement ________ concentrate on a single kind of segregation –________________________________________________________.
5. The ___________on ____________________________:
In August 1963, more than 250,000 people converged on__________________________________. to demand _____________________for blacks.

Here, Martin Luther________________. delivered his famous _______________________________________________speech ...


6. The _____________________________of 1964:
The _____________on Washington _____the _______________to ______________passing the Civil Rights_________, _________________discrimination in ____public places and making it __________ to ______________________in _______________________on the basis of race or sex.

Georgia Senator Richard B. ____________________________________________________________________________ and organized a 75-day filibuster with 18 other Southern Democratic Senators. Finally, in June 1964, the ______________passed the ________by a vote of 73-27.

The Civil Rights _________was signed into _______by U.S.____________________________________________________________, widely considered the_________________________________________.

Johnson considered this his ________________________________________as United States President.


7. The _____________of _____________________Lester___________________:

Lester _____________became a GA celebrity in 1964 when he ___________to ___________his Atlanta _______________________rather than comply with the Civil Rights Act.

In 1966, ________________ran for ________________and was___________.

He ___________________many by ____________more ______________for _______________________________________than any previous _____________of GA.

As Governor, he supported ___________________and _________________________for GAs_________________. He also started _________________________________ where, _________a____________, average ____________could come ________to the ____________________directly at the Governors office.

8._______________________________________________________:
By 1973, Atlantas __________________became an__________________________________________________.

Maynard _____________defeated the ________________Mayor Sam _______________(who was popular with blacks as well) to _____________the first _________________________________________of a __________American_____.



Lesson Three (SS8H11c) – The student will discuss the impact of Andrew Young on Georgia.

One of GAs greatest ___________________________was____________________:
In the 1950s and 1960s, __________organized _______registration and ________________________efforts in ____________and other southern cities.

He worked closely with__________. and the__________.

In 1972, _____________was __________to the U.S. House of Representatives, the __________black elected from ____since_____________________.

In 1977, _______________________________appointed _______________to be the _________________________________________to the__________________________________.



In 1981, he __________________Maynard _____________________as __________of________________________.

In 1996, he served as _____________________of the _________________________________________on the __________________________________________(ACOG).

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