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Tom Watson and the Populists
He was a colorful and successful lawyer a leading populist and author and a publisher. He served and the Georgia House of Representatives in 1882 the United States House of Representatives fro m 1890 to 1892. -
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International Cotton Expostion
Atlanta had its exposition in Olgethrope Park in 1881. There were more than fourty-thousand people there. It showed new planters and seed cleaners along with Eli Whitney's cotton gin. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A passenger named Homer Plessy didn't want to sit in a Jim Crow car. He was taken before judge John H. Ferguson in New Orleans and the law was challenged in the Supreme Court on grounds that conflicted with the thirthteenth and fourteenth amendment. -
Booker T. Washington
He was born a slave but became one of the most celebrated educators and orators in the world. He was born a slave on a Virginia and he rose to become one of the most influential African Ameriacans. -
Alonzo Herndon
he was a African American barber and entrepreneur. He was also the president of Atlanta Life Insurance Company. -
1906 Atlanta Roit
During the riot mobs killed thousands of blacks from September 22 intill September 23.The black population from nine thousand in 1880 into thirty five thousand in 1900. -
John and Lugenia Hope
John was a important leader in the civil rights movements and he was born in Augusta Georgia in 1868 and he was a very close friend to the W.E.B Dubios. His wife was a mover and shaker and civil leader -
W.E.D Du Bios
It was made and worked by Dr. Robert W. Williams a activist and a Pan-African. It was widely recognized as a significant figure for his pursuit of social justice. -
Leo Frank Case
Its was one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in Georgia. He was a Jewish man who was convicted of raping and murdering of a thirteen year old girl work for National Pencil Company. -
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World War one
It was know as the First War of America or the called it the Great War. it was in Europe more than seventy million military personnel and 60 million Europeans where mobilised. -
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County Unit System
It was a voting system used by the U.S state of Georgia. To choose the statewide primary election. -
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Great Depression
It was the deepest and longest economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It all started happening when the stock markets crashed in October. -
Eugene Talmadge
He was a Governor and he went to the University of Georgia. He was born in 1884 in Forsyth, Georgia to Thomas and Carrie Talmadge