Describe the 1964 civil rights act and why it was widely opposed in georgia.

The core of the civil rights act, prompted by Martin Luther King's speech a year earlier, is to give real civil rights to black people and to end segregation.

Explanation:

Georgia was one of the strongest slave-holding states prior to the civil war. This is one of the reasons why Georgia was opposed to desegration and actually passed the so called Jim Crow laws that institutionalized segregation. To give but one example how blacks felt in Georgia at the time: In the latin jazz classic Manteca by Dizzy Gillespie & Chano Pozo you hear the following line: ¨I never go back to Georgia¨.