Civil Rights Movement & Modern Georgia

Thurgood Marshall:

• Was a student in Linda Brown's class

• Led the March on Washington

• Was the sheriff of the Albany during the Albany Movement

• Argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court

Which Supreme court ruling over-turned Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Marbury v. Madison

What did many people believe the 1956 Georgia flag signified?

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Georgia's secession from the Union

• Georgia's resistance to the federal government's integration laws

• The Black Lives Matters Movement

The Sibley Commission:

• Printed signs to boycott desegregation

• Helped transition African Americans into white schools

• Held sit-ins at local stores to boycott segregation

• held public hearings to see how Georgians felt about integration

The Sibley Commission found that:

• Waldo was hiding by the jeep in the beach scene

• Georgia was ready for desegregation

• Schools wanted to individually choose how they handled segregation

• 2 out of 3 Georgians would rather see schools closed than integrated

Martin Luther King Jr. :

• Was a student of Benjamin Mays

• Was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement

• Led the March on Washington

• All of the above

Led anti-discrimination marches and protests throughout the South

• The Bourbon Class

• The Board of Education

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Ku Klux Klan

A group of college students who held sit-ins at segregated restaurants along with promoted voter registration:

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Children of MLK Together

• All Civil Rights Activists United

• Tuskegee Coalition

Which movement lasted from the Fall of 1961 to the Summer of 1962 and whose goal was to end all types of segregation in Albany, GA?

• Free Culture Movement

• Albany Movement

• Black Lives Matter

• Cooperative Movement

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

• The law banned the use of civil lawyers in a court room

• Law that banned Civil Rights protests in Washington

• A play performed on Broadway about Martin Luther King Jr.

• This law banned discrimination against any American because of race/color/religion