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The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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John Robert Lewis is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.
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Hamilton E. Holmes. Hamilton E. Holmes was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
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The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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For a period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration. To fill the vacancy, Eugene's son, Herman, was appointed by the state Legislature.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be "unconstitutional."
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The Georgia state flag that was used from 1956 to 2001 featured a prominent Confederate battle flag
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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Sibley Commission. 1969 Georgia governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them.
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The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voter's rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, male or female, or national origin
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The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta.
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Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 through 1968.
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William Berry Hartsfield, Sr., was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist.
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Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was an American politician and attorney from Georgia, a member of the Democratic Party, and elected in 1973 first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any major city in the South.
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James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States.
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Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the African-American civil rights movement.
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The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympics.
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Herman Eugene Talmadge was an attorney and a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia, the son of former governor Eugene Talmadge.
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Ivan Earnest Allen Jr., was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
