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Tom Watson And The Populists
The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing and controversial among Georgia politician. He is remembered for being a voice for Populism and the disenfranchised. -
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International Cotton Exposition
In the late nineteenth century, fairs and expositions were an important way for cities to attract visitors and investors who, in an era before radio and television. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington a black educator and spokesman.
He gave a speech later known as the Atlanta Compromise at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy was born a free man and, going by the American South’s prevailing one drop rule still in effect nationally today. car on the East Louisiana Railroad. Segregated rail cars were allowed due to an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating separate railroad accommodations for whites and blacks. -
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County Unit System
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. -
Alonzo Herndon
Born into slavery in Walton County on June 26, 1858, Alonzo Franklin. An African American barber and entrepreneur Alonzo Herndon was founder and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks. On A afternoon of Saturday September 22, Atlanta newspapers reported four alleged assaults none of which were ever substantiated, upon local white women. -
john and Lugenia Burns Hope
Lugenia Burns was born on February 19, 1871, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Louisa M. Bertha and Ferdinand Burns, a successful carpenter. She was the youngest of seven children. Her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, after the death of her father. -
WEB Dubois
Du Bois was an African American educator, historian, sociologist, and social activist who poignantly addressed the issues of racial discrimination, black social problems. -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain. -
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World war I
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. Georgia also suffered from the effects of the influenza pandemic -
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Holocaust
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews -
Civilian Conservation Corps
Among the numerous New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is remembered as one of the most popular and effective. Established on March 31, 1933 -
Richard Russell
Richard Brevard Russell Sr. was born in Marietta on April 27, 1861, to Rebecca Harriette Brumby and William John Russell. His father was a prosperous middle-class textile manufacturer who lost all of his possessions in the Civil War -
Eugene Talmadge
A controversial and colorful politician, Eugene Talmadge played a leading role in the state's politics from 1926 to 1946. During his three terms as state commissioner of agriculture. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act was signed into law by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. The law was one of Roosevelt's major New Deal initiatives during the Great Depression. -
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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. The Great Depression hit the South, including Georgia, harder than some other regions of the country, and in fact only worsened an economic downturn that had begun in the state a decade earlier. U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs for economic relief and recovery, -
Rural Electrification
The Rural Electrification Act is a law that was passed by the U.S. Congress in May 1936. It was a congressional endorsement of the Rural Electrification Administration, which U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt created by executive order in May 1935 as part of his New Deal, during the Great Depression. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act in January 1936, a slightly modified version of the law was passed in 1938. The program was largely successful at raising crop prices, though it had the unintended consequence of inordinately favoring large landowners over sharecroppers. -
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World War II
The growth of the manufacturing sector in Georgia had consequences for the state's traditional economic engine, agriculture. All American farmers were strained by the war effort. -
Pearl Harbor
The government-owned plant closed immediately after the end of World War II and sat idle until 1951, when it became home to Lockheed-Georgia. The Bell-trained managers and laborers proved that southerners were capable of sophisticated and meticulous industrial work. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson, recognized as " the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Carl Vinson
When he retired in January 1965, he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history.
