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Period: 2016 BCE to
1906 atlanta riot
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbreak of the mob violence. -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
lea frank case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. The degree of anti-Semitism involved in Frank's conviction and subsequent lynching is difficult to assess, but it was enough of a factor to have inspired Jews, and others, throughout the country to protest the conviction of an innocent man. -
Period: 2016 BCE to
country unit system
The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act.In effect, the system of allotting votes by county, with little regard for population differences, allowed rural counties to control Georgia elections by minimizing the impact of the growing urban centers, particularly Atlanta -
Period: 2016 BCE to
booker t.washington
On September 18, 1895, the African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington delivered his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.Two years earlier, Washington had spoken in Atlanta during the international meeting of Christian Workers. -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
WEB DuBois
Du Bois accepted a faculty position at Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University) in 1897. Atlanta University president Horace Bumstead brought Du Bois to Atlanta to establish a sociology program and to develop the university's curriculum.Courtesy of Clark Atlanta University -
Period: 2016 BCE to
john and lugenia hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. she worked for the improvement of black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure. -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
alonzo herndon
An African American barber and entrepreneur, Alonzo Herndon was founder and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, one of the most successful black-owned insurance businesses in the nation. Admired and respected by many, he was noted for his involvement in and support of local institutions and charities devoted to advancing African American business and community life. -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
great depression
The stock market crash in the waning days of October 1929 heralded the beginning of the worst economic depression in U.S. history.Much of the nation was enjoying a manufacturing and production boom in the 1920s, but a combination of overproduction, foreign competition, and new man-made fabrics, such as rayon, led to falling cotton prices in Georgia -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
civilian conservation corps
The U.S. Department of Labor recruited men for six-month enlistments; the U.S. Department of War provided army officers to operate 200-man work camps; and the U.S. By the president's deadline, 274,375 men were at work in 1,300 camps nationwide. During the CCC's nine-year existence, more than 3 million men, endearingly called "Roosevelt's Tree Army," worked from 16,000 camps carrying out projects across the nation. -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops.After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the AAA in January 1936, a slightly modified version of the law was passed in 1938. hit Georgia especially hard, but trouble began for the state's economy even before the stock market crash of 1929. -
Period: 2016 BCE to
rural
Rural schools in Georgia are found across the state, on its rolling pastures, red clay fields, sandy coastlines, and wooded mountains. In 2003, one-third of Georgia's schools were located in a rural setting. Most of Georgia's rural schools have survived at least two or three rounds of consolidation. As rural school systems in Georgia have continued to consolidate their schools, few rural schools are still housed in their original buildings or situated. -
Period: 2016 BCE to
international cotton exposition
The 1881 International Cotton Exposition buildings in Atlanta's Oglethorpe Park consisted of a central building and several wings. The central building was devoted to textile-manufacturing displays while the wings showcased other southern products, including sugar, rice, and tobacco. -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
plessy v. ferguson
The name "Jim Crow" refers to a minstrel character popular in the 1820s and 1830s, but it is unknown how the term came to describe the form of racial segregation and discrimination that prevailed in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century.Under Jim Crow, black Georgians suffered from a system of discrimination that pervaded nearly every aspect of life; they were denied their constitutional right to vote, encountered discrimination in housing and employment -
Period: to 2016 BCE
Eugene Talmadge
A controversial and colorful politician, Eugene Talmadge played a leading role in the state's politics from 1926 to 1946.Eugene Talmadge was born on the family farm near Forsyth on September 23, 1884, to Carrie Roberts and Thomas R. Talmadge. After attending the University of Georgia and briefly teaching, Talmadge. -
Period: to
tom watson and the populists
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the price of cotton steadily fell in the American South.Populism blazed across the Georgia scene only briefly. By the end of 1896, it was nearly exhausted. -
Period: to 2016 BCE
world war 1
Georgia played a significant role during America's participation in World War I (1917-18). The state was home to more training camps than any other state and, by the war's end, it had contributed more than 100,000 men and women to the war effort.Nearly a year later, the torpedoing of the transatlantic liner Lusitania on May 7, 1915, again caused little outcry in Georgia, although voices from the North were quick to call for America's entry into the war. -
Period: to
Great Depression
The stock market crash in the waning days of October 1929 heralded the beginning of the worst economic depression in U.S. history. Much of the nation was enjoying a manufacturing and production boom in the 1920s, but a combination of overproduction, foreign competition, and new man-made fabrics, such as rayon -
Period: to
Eugene Talmadge
Much of the nation was enjoying a manufacturing and production boom in the 1920s, but a combination of overproduction, foreign competition, and new man-made fabrics, such as rayon