Fill in the Blanks Civil Rights MovementOnline version Analyze the role Georgia and prominent Georgians played in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s; include such events as the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Sibley Commission, admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia, Albany Movement, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, the election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta, and the role of Lester Maddox. by Aaron Stinson 1 Mays Civil Equal illegal 1965 Movement Brown methods 1964 Voting unconstitutional Education Rights lessons outlawed nonviolent mentor The Act of made segregation and discrimination in public places and discrimination in any projects that used federal money illegal . It set up the Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) . In 1965 , Congress passed the Rights Act of , which literacy tests and other used to keep blacks from voting . Dr . Benjamin , president of Morehouse College , was a supporter of the civil rights movement and a to many of the young men in the movement . In 1961 , the Albany worked to end discrimination in Albany . While not as successful as some hoped , it did provide important for the civil rights movement . The U . S . Supreme Court decision in v . Board of of Topeka declared the separate - but - equal concept .