Unit 8 Societal and Technological Growth Vocabulary Quiz

Only white citizens were allowed to vote in primary elections

• March on Washington

• Civil Rights Act

• White Primary

• Sibley Commission

Supreme court case that struck down segregation in public schools

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• March on Washington

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Group of college students who used sit-ins to protest segregation

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• Sibley Commission

• Albany Movement

• March on Washington

Committee that studied the problem of integration in schools - discovered most Georgians would rather close

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• Civil Rights Act

• Albany Movment

• Sibley Commission

Only Georgian to serve as president

• William Hartsfield

• Jimmy Carter

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Lester Maddox

Governor who appointed more African Americans to positions than all previous governors combined

• Lester Maddox

• Ivan Allen, Jr.

• William Hartsfield

• Maynard Jackson

First African American mayor - oversaw the start of Marta and expanded the airport

• Ivan Allen, Jr.

• William Hartsfield

• Lester Maddox

• Maynard Jackson

Required all public facilities to be integrated and prohibited discrimination

• March on Washington

• Civil Rights Act

• White Primary

• Albany Movement

Desegregation movement in Georgia

• March on Washington

• Civil Rights Act

• Albany Movement

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

250,000 people called on the president to pass a law that guaranteed equal rights

• March on Washington

• Albany Movement

• Civil Rights Act

• White Primary