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What is significant about Maynard Jackson to the Civil Rights Movement?

•  First African Congressman since the 1860's
• First African American mayor of a major Southern city
• First African American Student at UGA

Who were the first black students to attend the University of Georgia?

• Charlayne Hunter and Horace Holmes
• Hamilton Holmes and Charlene Harris
• Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes

Who was both a governor of GA and a US senator who opposed integration?

• Ellis Arnall
• Herman Talmadge
• Andrew Young
• Maynard Jackson

What was the purpose of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating  Committee?

• SNCC coordinated youth led, non-violent campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism
• SNCC went door to door to find out how other Georgians felt about integration
• SNCC was a group who fought to March in Washington

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   He was a governor of GA from 1967 to 1971.  He believed strongly in states' rights and segregation.He became a public figure when he refused to serve African Americans in his Atlanta restaurant in defiance of the Civil Rights Act.  

• Eugene Talmadge
• Lester Maddox
• Herman Talmadge

President Jimmy Carter named this man an ambassador to the United Nations in 1977. In 1981, he was elected   mayor of Atlanta , succeeding Maynard Jackson.  He was a civil rights activist and the first African American to be elected as a U.S. Congressman since Reconstruction.

• Maynard Jackson
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Andrew Young
• Benjamin Mays

The protections and privileges given to all citizens by federal and state constitutions and laws.

• Civil rights
• constitution
• Animal rights

Bringing together people of different races and allowing them equal access to places where they were formally kept apart

• desegregation
• integration
• segregation
• desegregation and integration

Which term means keeping blacks and whites apart in public places/

• integration
• segregation
• desegregation

This man was governor of GA from 1967 to 1971.  While in office, he surprised many people by putting more African Americans into government jobs than ever before. It was a surprise because earlier he was a segregationists who wanted to close his restaurant rather than obey the law.

• Louis Armstrong
• Maynard Jackson
• Benjamin Mays
• Lester Maddox