Unit 11 Vocabulary - Modern Georgia

Supreme Court cases that struck down the policy of separate but equal and mandated the desegregation of public schools.

• Brown vs Bd. of Education

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Integration Act

Federal legislation that forbade discrimination on the basis of race and sex in hiring, firing, and promotion.

• Civil rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Brown vs Bd. of Education

Famous civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the famous “I Have a Dream” speech was given at the march.

• March on Albany

• March on Atlanta

• March on Washington

Investigation by lawyer John Sibley to determine what should be done about integration in the state; though 60% of Georgians claimed they would rather close the public schools than integrate.

• Warren Comission

• Voting Rights Act

• Brown vs Bd. of Education

• Sibley Commission

Civil rights organization by college students that urged nonviolent protests to gain integration; the group became more militant in the late 1960s.

• NAACP

• Black Panthers

• SCLC

• SNCC

An organized civil rights protest led by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, whose primary objective was to desegregate the city of Albany, Georgia, and the surrounding community.

• March on Washington

• Counter Sit-ins

• Albany Movement

• All are correct

Prohibited states from imposing any voting qualifications on their citizens.

• White Primary

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

Part of a Supreme Court ruling that mandated congressional districts needed to be divided by population with each district having a roughly equal number of voters.

• Legislative Act

• Voting rights Act

• Reapportionment

First African-American mayor of a major southern city, Atlanta.

• Andrew Young

• Maynard Jackson

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John Lewis

President of Morehouse College and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John Lewis

• Gandhi

• Benjamin Mays