Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young, and Benjamin Mays were some of the main people of the Civil Rights movement. Their past has changed the things that are now. Maynard Jackson was born on March 23, 1938 in Dallas, Texas. His family moved to Atlanta in 1945. Maynard went to Morehouse College through a special early-entry program and graduated in 1956, when he was only eighteen. In the 1970s, Jackson had 60 percent of voters on his side at the age of 35 and won the election for governor. The main impact he had on the movement was he got many voters to vote for him and had Ivan Allen Jr on his side. Andrew Young was born on March 12, 1932 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was in a prosperous midsize-class family. Andrew graduated from Howard
