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There were several newspaper reports of secession flags consisting of a single star on a solid background. Georgia had lead the nation in the number and a variety of different state flags.
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William Harstfield served as mayor for six terms, he had severed longer than any other person in the city's history. Hartsfield was also responsible for fostering Atlanta's image as "the city too busy to hate."
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May's education in Chicago was interrupted several times. In 1940 Mays became president in college.
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The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta.
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The younger Talmadge had been a write in candidate and was one of three competitors serving briefly as the 70th Governor of Georgia before yielding to a court decision in favor of the elected lieutenant governor. Herman was an attorney and a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia, the son of former governor Eugene Talmadge.
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Eugene won election to a fourth term as Georgia’s governor in 1946, but he had died before his inauguration. Melvin Thompson had been elected to created office of lieutenant governor, and he had became governor
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Brown vs the Board of Education became one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century. A large amount of the United States had racial segregation of children in public schools.
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The Sibley Commission was created to let the public make their decisions about public school. This all had took place in Atlanta Georgia.
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Only whites could sit the lunch counter no colored. A lot of colored people had took turns sitting at the counter, but they never got served.
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Hamilton and Charlayne became the first two African American students to go to the University. The African Americans in the South definitely was placed at a lower status than most whites, but the reason for this is that the whites have kept them at this low level.
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A lot of blacks had protested and they all got arrested in one week including himself. They had over 1,000 African Americans in jailing for protesting.
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Allen took the helm of the Ivan Allen Company, his father's office supply business.He became President of the city Chamber of Commerce in 1961 and during this same year ran for mayor.
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200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Randolph called for a March on Washington by fifty thousand people.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. Congress provided for court-appointed referees to help blacks register to vote
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The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Falcons played their home games at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta.
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Maddox surprised many by serving as an able, though unquestionably colorful, chief executive. In 1947 Maddox opened his most enduring and successful enterprise, the Pickrick Cafeteria.
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The "Braves" name, which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for a Native American warrior. The braves nickname is Bravos.
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Martin Luther King had changed his first name from Micheal to Martin. A distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated.
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Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman. Young graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in biology.
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Jackson was an American politician and attorney from Georgia, a member of the Democratic Party, and elected in 1973 The first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city
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The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year.
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The farm where Jimmy lived from age four in 1928 until he left for college he always worked on the farm.
