GA Politics Post WW2

This Governor replaced Eugene Talmadge.

He was also known as an honest man who wanted to serve all his people, progressive and ended the poll tax, and lost being re-elected in 1946.

• Herman Talmadge

• Ellis Arnall

• Melvin Thompson

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

What is a primary election?

• A election where the candidates meet to decide who will run for office and who will not run for office

• A special election where the people vote to choose who is the Democratic and Republican candidate

• A primary election is an election where people vote to narrow down the candidates for a particular political party

Which statement is 100% accurate (true)?

• In GA in the 1930s and 40s blacks could only vote in the primary elections and not the general elections

• In GA in the 1930s and 40s blacks could only vote in their primaries and whites could only votes in their primaries

• In GA in the 1930s and 40s black people could not vote in primary elections but could in general elections

Which of the best explains how some white people controlled politics in GA and districts where there were majority black voters?

• White supremacists used the primary election to their advantage. By not allowing black people to vote in the primary election, white supremacists got to select all the candidates for the general election in the Fall.

• White supremacists used the general election to their advantage. They only would allow black people to vote in the primary where all the candidates where white. So black people had no choice but to vote for a white person.

• White supremacists used both the general election and primary election to their advantage. They did not allow black people to vote so their candidate always won.

1944 Dr. Thomas Brewer and Primus E. King, two African American men, went to vote in the Columbus GA primary election.  What happened to them?

• They were peacefully denied their right to vote and later sued the state over the matter

• They were violently denied their right to vote and later sued the state over the matter

• They were allowed to vote but their votes were taken and then tossed in the trash because they were black

What was the outcome of the King vs. Chapman et. al case?

• The federal court ruled the white primary constitutional thus protecting it and ensuring it

• The federal court ruled that the state had to offer separate but equal primaries due to Plessy vs Ferguson case

• The federal court ruled the primary unconstitutional and thus ending the white primary

After the federal court ended the white primary, many white people in GA were angry and removed their support of Governor Ellis Arnall. They elected his opponent in the following election of 1946.

• True

• False

I won the election of 1946 and promised to bring back the white primary (which I knew was a lie).  

• Eugene Talmadge

• Melvin Thompson

• Herman Talmadge

I ran for Governor in 1946 and lost the election because of my role in ending the white primary system.

• Eugene Talmadge

• Melvin Thompson

• Ellis Arnall

I was elected Lt. Governor of Georgia in November of 1946.  I also was anti-Talmadge.  

• Melvin Thompson

• Ellis Arnall

• Herman Talmadge