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Willam b. hartsfeild
William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta.He served as mayor for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's history. Hartsfield held office during a critical period when the color line separating the races began to change and the city grew from more than 100,000 inhabitants to a metropolitan population of one million. -
herman talmage
Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia
Herman Talmadge, son of Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge, took the governor's office briefly in 1947, and again after a special election in 1948.
Herman Talmadge
for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980. -
1956 state flag
Georgia's General Assembly ratified the addition of the Confederate Battle Flag to the state flag in 1956 as a backlash to the Brown v. Board of Education decisions, which federally imposed integration of public schools. -
student non- violent coordinating cimmittee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick") was one of the key
Ralph Abernathy (right) and Martin Luther King Jr. were central organizers of the Montgomery bus boycott, which demanded that black passengers be treated fairly on public transportation.
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hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the students who desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961, returned in 1992 to speak at the first annual Holmes-Hunter lecture. -
the albany movement
Recent historians, however, have suggested that extending the narrative of the Albany Movement chronologically and geographically and treating the movement on its own terms—as a local movement with deep roots—rather than viewing it as one brief failure in the long saga of the national civil rights movement, creates a very different picture of the freedom struggle in the southwest corner of the state. -
ivan allen jr.
Allen was born in Atlanta on March 15, 1911, the only son of Ivan Allen Sr., the founder of the Ivan Allen Company, an office products company, and Irene Beaumont Allen. After graduating from the local Boys High School, Allen attended the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1929 to 1933, majoring in business administration. After graduation he went to work for his father's company. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin luther king jr was a baptist preacher and did a famous speech called "i have a dream." -
Andrew young
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born on March 12, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a prosperous middle-class family. His mother, Daisy Fuller, was a schoolteacher, and his father, Andrew Young, was a dentist. Born during the depths of the Great Depression and Jim Crow segregation, Young was brought up to believe that "from those to whom much has been given, much will be required." -
atlanta braves
After spending seventy-seven years in Boston, Massachusetts, and thirteen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Braves moved to Atlanta to begin the 1966 major league baseball season. The move made the Atlanta Braves the first major league professional sports team to call the Deep South its home. Citizens of the city welcomed their new team with a downtown parade. -
atlanta hawks
The
Atlanta Hawks player Al Harrington (left) attempts a rebound during a game with the Phoenix Suns at Philips Arena in 2006. The Hawks franchise moved to Atlanta from St. Louis, Missouri, in 1968 and has played home games at Philips Arena since 1999.Atlanta Hawks
Hawks, a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise and part of the Eastern Conference's Southeast Division, have called Atlanta home since 1968. -
benjamin mays
Perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist.He was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. -
Atlanta falcons
In 1965 the Atlanta Falcons became the first professional football team in the city of Atlanta and the fifteenth National Football League (NFL) franchise in existence.
Since the team's first preseason game against Philadelphia at Atlanta Stadium (later Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium), the Falcons have become a mainstay in Atlanta's sports culture. Now playing at the Georgia Dome, the Falcons join the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks as professional sporting attractions in Georgia. -
sibley commission
Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor. The report issued by the Sibley Commission laid the foundation for ending massive resistance to desegregation in the state.
