In this year, several laws and practices that had restricted African American participation in the voting process are erased in the state, boosting the efforts of the voter registration campaign.

February: Georgia is the fourth state to abolish the poll tax, which had been a deterrent to black voter registration since Reconstruction.

August: The state lowers the required voting age from 21 to 18.

October: Georgia's "whites only" primary is declared unconstitutional by Judge T. Hoyte Davis.

The United Negro Veterans Organization sponsors a March from Ebenezer Church on Auburn Avenue to City Hall to protest the city's refusal to hire black policemen. It is led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.