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about for the test and a secret bonus for you to know:
Did you know that Richard Russell came up with the National School Lunch Act?
Can you explain the three governor scandal with Governor Arnall, Lt. Gov. Melvin Thompson and Herman Talmadge?
Did you know that Melvin Thompson saved Jekyll Island as a resort and created the UGA school of veterinary medicine?
Can you name two things that the racist governor, Herman Talmadge, did while in office? How about making the school year 9 months, extending the grades from 1-12 and resisted any integration.
Marvin Griffin made Stone Mountain a state parkand remodeled the state capital!
Be able to name three things Governor Carl Sanders did while in office!
How did Lester Maddox fool those who thought he was racist and a segregationist?
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes made history. What did they do?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 threaten to do to any school system that did not desegregate?
Why was Martin Luther King arrested for his role in the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
In which area of civil rights did the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference work?
In which area of the civil rights movement did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee work?
What was the Albany Movement?
Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the most far-reaching and important civil rights legislation since reconstruction?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people on a march to
Montgomery
,
ALA.
in the summer of 1965. What was the purpose of the march?
Give two ways that Major William Hartsfield helped bring races together in
Atlanta
.
Did you know that African American singer Sam Cooke was the first to produce his own songs, have his own recording company and sing about Civil Rights in the song, "A Change is gonna Come"?
Can you name two things Atlanta's first African American Mayor, Maynard Jackson, did?
Did you know that Jimmy Carter was not only the only President of the United States from Georgia, but he also built houses for the Habitat for Humanity, wrote books and won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Bonus!!! Who is Georgia's current governor and what he is famous for? Sonny Perdue-The first Republican governor since Reconstruction!
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