Civil Rights

Purpose of Sibley Commission

• Determine the public's opinion on integration (desegregation)

• Determine the public's view on segregation

• enforce segregation

• enforce desegregation

Brown v. Board of Education

• Segregation violated 14th amendment

• Segregation violated Civil Rights Act

• Segregation violated 15TH amendment

• Segregation violated Voting Righs Act

The Albany Movement

• desegregated public facilities

• Resulted in more successful protests

• Made it illegal to belong to the KKK or other similar organizations

• resulted in the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

___influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• William Hartsfield

• Herman Talmadge

• John F. Kennedy

• Benjamin Mays

The March on Washington led to

• the creation of the Sibley Commission

• The president giving in to the protesters

• Political campaigns for the protesters

• Momentum (movement) for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The SNCC emphasized

• Legislative lobbying and voting

• Voter registration drives and sit ins

• armed self-defense

• legal challenges to segregation

____ helped Lester Maddox get elected to governor of GA

• Committment to protecting businesses

• support for 1964 Civil Rights Act

• Committment to investing in rural areas

• Opposition to the Civil Rights Act

Lester Maddox

• Opposed the Civil Rights Act and removed African Americans from government

• Opposed the Civil Rights Act but appointed African Americans from government

• Supported the Civil Rights Act and appointed African Americans from government

• Supported the Civil Rights Act but removed African Americans from government

Lester Maddox was in contempt of court in the 1960s because

• He did not name suspected communists

• He defied a court order to integrate his restaurant

• He defied federal orders to integrate GA schools

• He refused to leave office

Martin Luther King Jr gave the ___ speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

• "I Have a Dream"

• "Promised Land"

• "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

• "Why Can't We Wait"