1-2: name two major

1-2: Name two major developments in Civil Rights:

1. Desegregation of schools 2. Integration in workplaces/businesses 3. Integration in city government 4. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work with other civil

rights leaders 5. Brown v. Board of Education 6. African Americans involved in Sports 7. Many more!

Major League Sports-

Jackie Robinson

Turn to page 437 in your

textbook!

Answer the following questions

after you have read about Jackie

Robinson.

1. Where was Robinson originally

from?

2. What did Robinson earn at

UCLA?

3. Which team did Robinson play

for as the first African

American?

4. Where can you find Robinson’s

historical marker?

Hank Aaron

Turn to page 451 in your textbook!

Answer the following questions

after you have read about Hank

Aaron.

1. What is Hank Aaron’s Career

record for home runs?

2. Where did Aaron begin his

career?

3. What team did he play for (he

was the first African-American

to play for this team!)?

4. Name two of his lifetime

accomplishments.

…

• Civil Rights Act of 1875 – outlawed

segregation in all public facilities.

• 1890’s – court decisions limiting rights of

African Americans.

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

– Separate but equal

does NOT violate the

14th Amendment.

• Jim Crow Laws –

aimed at separating the races.

1954 - The Supreme

Court ruled that

separate but equal

schools were

unconstitutional!

Within a year, 500

schools are

desegregated!

4. What did the Sibley Commission in Georgia decide to do about desegregation of schools?

–

5. Charlayne Hunter and

Hamilton Holmes made

history.

What did they do?

They were the first African Americans to attend and graduate from the University

of Georgia!

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6. What is the 1956 State Flag of Georgia?

-The flag changed in 1956 to incorporate

St. Andrew’s Cross, the Confederate

battle flag.

-The flag has long since been a subject of

controversy and divisions with in the

state.

-African Americans were

offended by references to the slavery in

the state’s past.

-Many modern leaders were

offended by the image of a state caught

up in its past instead of its future.

-The flag was damaging to Georgia’s

tourism industry and portrayed the

wrong message to the world!

-A new flag was introduced in 2001.

It was Georgia’s way

to rebel against

integration.

7. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 threaten to do to any school system

that did not desegregate?

They would refuse federal funds (money) to any school district that did not end

segregation!

“All I was doing was trying to get home

from work.”

8. In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give

up her seat to a white and was

arrested. What event did this lead to?

The Montgomery Bus Boycott involved African Americans not only refusing to ride the buses, but they also carpooled to work, and received taxi rides for only a

dime by black taxi cab drivers. The City’s bus profits dropped by 65%!!

• December Speech :– “There comes a time when people get tired of being

trampled over by the iron feet of oppression …I want it to be known that we’re going to work with grim and bold determination – to gain justice on buses in this city. And we are not wrong…If we are wrong – God Almighty is wrong…If we are wrong – justice is a lie…If you will protest courageously and yet with dignity…historians will have to pause and say. “There lived a great people – a black people – who injected a new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.”

Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation

9. Who was Ivan Allen? -The civil rights movement was turbulent in many cities like Boston, Newark, Los Angeles, and Birmingham -There were many riots and demonstrations taking place. -However, with the exception of two minor breakouts, there was relative peace in Atlanta. -Desegregation and integration of business, city government, and schools were peaceful. -This peace is attributed to many people including Ivan Allen, an Atlanta mayor.

Ivan Allen’s conversations with MLK helped keep Atlanta calm during the civil rights movement.

10-11. Name two accomplishments of Ivan Allen:

-Elected mayor in 1962

-Ordered the immediate

removal of the “Colored”

and “White” signs on all

entrances and exits to City

Hall

-He removed the

restrictions on the African-

American policemen

-Integrated the city’s fire

department and city

government

12. Who is

Andrew Young?

-He was a mayor of Atlanta. -He continued MLK’s fight for civil rights with other political leaders. -He believed in equality and fair treatment for all Americans and that it needed to continued with new leaders and new participants who build upon the contributions of those in the past. -He was instrumental in bringing the Olympics to Atlanta in 1996.

13. What is the end of the white primary?

The desegregation of the primaries in Georgia for major elections allowed African Americans to participate in voting. It created more equal opportunities to have your voice heard in elections and it also was a more fair election.

14. Why was Martin Luther King arrested for

his role in the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?

He “violated” a 1921 anti-labor law forbidding boycotts.

• -Dr. King lived in Atlanta & attended Booker T.

Washington High School & later Morehouse College

• -Became a preacher at Ebenezer Baptist Church

• -1948 he earned a doctorate degree in theology &

married Coretta Scott King

• -He developed a nonviolent approach to social change

15-17. Whose teachings of nonviolence did Dr.

Martin Luther King base his movement on?

1. Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”

2. India’s Mahatma Gandhi 3. Jesus

18. Dr. King organized sit-ins at lunch counters and department stores all

over the south and Atlanta.

Define sit-in:

A type of demonstration

where people enter a public building

and refuse to leave until their demands

are met.

19. In which area of civil rights did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian

Leadership Conference work (SCLC)?

desegregating lunch counters

20. In which area of the civil rights

movement did the Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee work (SNCC)?

“Whites only” waiting rooms at

the city bus stations.

21. Did you know that Dr. Benjamin Mays became the first African American to sit the…?

City of Atlanta’s Board

of Education

22. What was the Albany Movement?

More than five

hundred “freedom

riders” were

arrested over

months of protest

by sitting in the

“Whites Only”

waiting room at the

city’s bus station.

23. Why was the Civil Rights

Act of 1964 the most far-

reaching and important civil

rights legislation since

reconstruction?

It made all segregation of all

public facilities illegal such as restaurants,

theaters, hotels, schools and libraries!

24. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000

people on a march to Montgomery, ALA. in the

summer of 1965. The purpose of the march was

to call attention to. . . ?

Voting rights for

African Americans

Voting

Rights Act

of 1965!

26-27: Give 2 ways that Mayor William Hartsfield helped bring

races together in Atlanta. 26. He created a biracial coalition to help all races register to vote.

27. He hired 8 African American Policemen in Atlanta!

*He also worked to integrate Atlanta schools and ended lunch counter segregation

16Did you know that Maynard Jackson became the first African American

_____________ of Atlanta?