Controversial flag that flew over Georgia from 1956-2001 due to the flag's prominent Confederate emblem. = <span>1956 State Flag
</span><span>Leader in the Civil Rights movement; leader of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee; U.S. Representative (1986-present). = </span><span>Congressman John Lewis
</span>The famous jobs and civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King, where he gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. = <span>March on Washington
</span><span>Federal legislation, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, that forbade discrimination on the basis of race and sex in
hiring, firing, and promotion = </span><span>Civil Rights act of 1964
</span>Civil rights organization by college students that urged non-violent protests and sit-in; They organized voter registrations in the South and led the Albany Movement. = <span>Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee
</span><span>Supreme Court cases that struck down the policy of separate but
equal and mandated the desegregation of public schools. = </span><span>Brown vs the Board of Education
</span><span>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, Sibley recommended that public schools desegregate on a limited basis. = </span><span>Sibley Commission</span>
<span>Although African Americans received their freedom as a result of the civil war, it didn't guarantee them all the rights that should have come with freedom. A study of the Civil Rights Movement that started during the Reconstruction Period following the war, and that continues today shows that many factors hindered blacks from exercising all of their rights. Many rights were still denied to blacks, such as the right to vote, and they were denied access by state and cities laws and ordinances to many freedom that most people take for granted.</span>
The Comstock Act was what made it illegal to spread them
