PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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The first Republican elected to Congress since Reconstruction
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Georgia’s first African American governor
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Mayor of Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics
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Atlanta’s first African American mayor
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Detailed explanation-1: -A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first Black mayor of Atlanta and of any major city in the South; his three terms made him the second longest-serving mayor in the city’s history, after six-term mayor William B. Hartsfield.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson, Jr. Maynard Jackson was Atlanta’s first African American mayor; he serve two consecutive terms (1974-1978; 1978-1982) and was elected for a third term in 1990.
Detailed explanation-3: -Maynard Jackson’s Inauguration Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990.
Detailed explanation-4: -Maynard Jackson Jr., a descendant of Georgia slaves who became the first black mayor of Atlanta in 1974 and championed civil rights, affirmative action and the city’s growth during his three terms in office, died Monday morning after collapsing in a Washington, D.C.-area airport. He was 65.