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Civil Rights Movement COGGLE!!! (March on Washington/ 1964 Civil Rights…
Civil Rights Movement COGGLE!!!
Supreme Court Case: Brown vs Board of Education
held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
put the Constitution on the side of racial equality
Segregation in public schools was said to be unconstitutional
SNCC + SCLC
SNCC: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
founded by African American college students with the $800 given from SCLC
Goal: to speed up the changes mandated by the Brown vs. Board of Education; wanted to influence Congress to pass a voting rights act
would do sit-ins at segregated lunch counters; register African Americans to vote
SCLC: Southern Christian Leadership Conference
would do marches and protests; later registered the African Americans to vote
Goal: carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second- class citizenship
founded by Martin Luther King Jr., other ministers, and Civil Rights leader
1956 Georgia State Flag Concerns
John Sammons Bell began a campaign to change the confederate flag to red and white bars on Georgia's state flag
Georgia did not want to do what Supreme Court declared; refused to fly the flags
In the late 1960s, some of the Georgians said that the Confederate battle flag was not proper
Governor Sonny Perdue signed to make a new state flag
Albany Movement
The movement itself failed, but it helped Martin Luther King Jr. learn lessons that helped him in Birmingham
resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and other surrounding countries
Had mass meetings where many demonstrators were jailed
The goal was to desegregate the entire community
First mass movement in modern civil rights era to have a goal to desegregate an entire community and attempted to make blacks progress in society
Sibley Commision
Governor Ernest was forced to make a decision to either close public schools or desegregate them
legislation created a General Assembly on Schools, Sibley Commision, which was to get state residents' sentiments on desegregation to report back to the governor
Governor couldn't make a decision so he handed it over to Ernest Vandiver, who asked the citizens for their opinion, but ignored it and allowed schools to be largely segregated
bill was passed that repealed the laws to cut off funds for both university and public schools
resulted in helping to prevent violence, but gave tactics to slow down the desegregation
March on Washington/ 1964 Civil Rights Act
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the race, color, gender, etc.
It was proposed by John F. Kennedy, but signed by Lyndon B. Johnson
Created the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968
Later expanded to help disabled elderly and women
Amendments were established to abolish slavery, which was done by former slave citizens