The Sibley Commission was set up by Gov Vandiver in 1960 to gauge Georgia's attitudes towards desegregating the public school system. In the end, Vandiver accepted the Commissions' findings, which were a practical integration to avoid Federal Government intrusion, and keeping the public schools in Georgia opened. When Vandiver ordered UGA to close it's doors in response to forced integration, attitudes about closing public schools changed. Many on the Commission were UGA grads who did not want to see the school fold.
Choosing to avoid further confrontation with the federal government, Vandiver backed away from massive resistance and, in a speech before the assembly on January 18, introduced a bill that repealed cutoff funds laws for both the university and public schools, and that also adopted the recommendations of the Sibley Commission. The bill passed on January 31, and the Atlanta school system officially desegregated the following autumn. Although the Sibley Commission helped to prevent the violence that accompanied desegregation in other Deep South states, it also provided tactics that local school boards could use to slow down the desegregation process. As a result, serious attempts at desegregation across the state would not begin until the late 1960s.
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Lawson Sibley was born in 1836.
Hiram Sibley died in 1888.
Denyse Sibley was born in 1962.
Mulford Q. Sibley died in 1989.
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The address of the Sibley Branch is: 127 Se 4Th Street, Sibley, 71073 M
The address of the Sibley Public Library is: 406 9Th St, Sibley, 51249 1803
Sibley's was created in 1868.
Christina Sibley's birth name is Christina Brooks Sibley.
George Sibley's birth name is George Everette Sibley Jr..
The phone number of the Sibley Branch is: 318-377-1320.
Alex Sibley's birth name is Alexander William Hans Sibley.
Irena Sibley was born in 1944.
Hiram Sibley was born in 1807.
Sibley's Shoes ended in 2003.
Sibley's Shoes was created in 1920.