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

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

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

would do sit-ins at segregated lunch counters; register African Americans to vote

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

The goal was to desegregate the entire community

Had mass meetings where many demonstrators were jailed

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bill was passed that repealed the laws to cut off funds for both university and public schools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

Segregation in public schools was said to be unconstitutional