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The modern georgia

By:carlos del villar

Brown v.s board

Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka was a landmark 1954
Supreme Court case in which the
justices ruled unanimously that racial
segregation of children in public
schools was unconstitutional. Brown v.
Board of Education was one of the
cornerstones of the civil rights
movement, and helped establish the
precedent that “separate-but-equal”
education and other services were not,
in fact, equal at all.

John lewis

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.,
John Lewis joined the burgeoning Civil
Rights Movement. Lewis was a
Freedom Rider, spoke at 1963's March
on Washington and led the
demonstration that became known as
"Bloody Sunday."

The albany
movement

The Albany Movement in the early
1960s had a simple but formidable
objective: the desegregation of an
entire community, from bus stations to
lunch counters. A coalition mobilized
thousands and brought national
attention to southwest Georgia,
particularly after Dr. King’s arrival in
December 1961.

Civil right act of
1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which
ended segregation in public places
and banned employment
discrimination on the basis of race,
color, religion, sex or national origin, is
considered one of the crowning
legislative achievements of the civil
rights movement. First proposed by
President John F. Kennedy, it survived
strong opposition from southern
members of Congress and was then
signed into law by Kennedy’s
successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. In
subsequent years, Congress
expanded the act and passed
additional civil rights legislation such
as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Lester maddox

Lester Maddox, the Atlanta restaurant
owner and archsegregationist who
adopted the pick handle as his symbol
of defiance in a successful bid for the
Georgia governorship in 1966, died on
Wednesday in Atlanta. He was 87.

Mr. Maddox first came to national
attention in 1964, after he violated the
newly signed federal Civil Rights Act
by refusing to serve three black
Georgia Tech students at his Pickrick
Restaurant.

The SNCC

The SNCC, or Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee, was a
civil-rights group formed to give
younger blacks more of a voice in the
civil rights movement. The SNCC soon
became one of the movement’s more
radical branches. In the wake of the
Greensboro sit-in at a lunch counter
closed to blacks, Ella Baker, then
director of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC),
helped set up the first meeting of what
became the SNCC.

Martin luther king

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist
minister and social activist who led the
civil rights movement in the United
States from the mid-1950s until his
assassination in 1968. King is
remembered for his non-violent
protests against segregation and his "I
Have a Dream" speech.

Jimmy carter

DescriptionJames Earl Carter Jr. is an
American politician and philanthropist
who served as the 39th president of
the United States from 1977 to 1981. A
Democrat, he previously served as a
Georgia State senator from 1963 to
1967 and as the 76th governor of
Georgia from 1971 to 1975.

The ccc

The Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC) was a public work relief
program that operated from 1933 to
1942 in the United States for
unemployed, unmarried men.

The AAA

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
was a federal law passed in 1933 as
part of U.S. president Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s New Deal. The law offered
farmers subsidies in exchange for
limiting their production of certain
crops.

World war 1

World War I began in 1914, after the
assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.
During the conflict, Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the
Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers)
fought against Great Britain, France,
Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the
United States (the Allied Powers).
Thanks to new military technologies
and the horrors of trench warfare,
World War I saw unprecedented levels
of carnage and destruction. By the
time the war was over and the Allied
Powers claimed victory, more than 16
million people—soldiers and civilians
alike—were dead

World war 2

World War II (often abbreviated to
WWII or WW2), also known as the
Second World War, was a global war
that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The
vast majority of the world's
countries—including all the great
powers—eventually formed two
opposing military alliances: the Allies
and the Axis. A state of total war
emerged, directly involving more than
100 million people from over 30
countries.