1-2: name two major
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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!
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-3996
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?
