Albany Movement
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
1956 State Flag
Sibley Commission
White Primary
Voting rights Act of 1965
Benjamin Mays
Civil Rights Act (1964)
- tactic used by whites in Georgia to prevent blacks from voting in the Democratic primary;
organization by college students that urged non-violent protests to gain integration;
investigation by lawyer John Sibley to determine what should be done about integration in the state public schools
- prohibited states from imposing any voting qualifications on their citizens
Protest led by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, whose primary objective was to desegregate the city of Albany.
-forbid discrimination on the basis of race and sex in hiring, firing, and promotion.
president of Morehouse College and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
controversial flag that flew over Georgia from 1956-2001. The flag was controversial due to the flag’s prominent Confederate Battle emblem.
