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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Period
Paleo Information The Paleo Indains lived as nomads traveling where there is food. The Paleo Indians hunted large animals such as the mammoth, bison, ground sloth, and saber tooth tiger. They would use a large spear head known as the clovis pont to bring down these animals. they had no organized trade or religion. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Period
Archaic Information The Archaic Indians had seasonal migrations to the same spots each year. They srted to make simple pottery and smaller more pointed spear heads. Now that large game animals do not exist they have to hunt smaler game animals like deer, bear, turkey, fish ,oysters, and shell fish. There is no evidence of organized trade. There is no evidence of orgganized religion. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Period
Woodland Information The Woodland Indians start to form tribes. They are no longer nomatic. They made more advanced pottery. They developed the bow and arrow. They begin to experiment with farming. Some evidence of trade but its not organized. They begin to build burial mounds and rock mounds. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian Period
Misissipian Information The Mississipian Indians began to form citie. They also established a government "Cheifdom". There is now social ranking. They have made the most advanced bow and arrow, Advanced stone tools. They are the first indians to live off of farms and small game animals. They had an advanced religion with temple mounds and they pray rto their ancestors, -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto Information
Hernando de Sotot was a Spanish explorer who came to Georgia for gold. On his journy he killed thousands of native americans. In the end he faild because there was no gold in Georgia. De Soto even died along the Mississippi River. -
Charter of 1732
[Charter of 1732 Information](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/trustee-georgia-1732-1752)
It was the beginning of the original Georgia colony. Its when Oglethorpe took people over to America and made a colony. The charter was made so people could have a second chance. It helped people get to America. -
Salzburgers Arrive
[Salzburgers Information](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/salzburgers)
The Salzburgers came to Georgia to escape religious persecution in their native country of Salzzburg also known as Austria. Since they arrived in Georgia them and their descendants have played an important role in the history of Georgia. They have contributed to the economic, social, civic, religious, and political life of this country. They preserve the Salzbugers history and folklore. -
Highland Scots arrive
[Highland Scots Information](www.cityofdarien.com/darienHistory.php)
They came to try to protect the Georgia colony. The men were trained warriors. They settled at Fort King George. Their settlement was called Darien. -
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John Reynolds
<a href='www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/Jhon-Reynolds-ca-1713-1788' >John Reynolds
John Reynolds served as a naval captain. Reynolds became governor of Georgia in 1754. He established a self governing system. Then he stoped leting Georgia govern its self and made decisions himself. which led to him being replaced in 1757. -
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Henry Ellis
[Henry Ellis Information](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/henry-ellis-1721-1806)
Ellis transported slaves on a cargo ship before he became Georgia's governor. He started his term in 1757. He persuaded the Creek Indians not to attack. He left Georgia because of heat related illneses in 1760. -
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James Wright
[James Wright Information](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/james-wright-1716-1785)
James was Georgia's third and final royal governor. He expanded farm and trade in Georgia. He fortified Savannah's defenses. He also enforced the stamp act. -
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Yazoo Land Fraud
Yazoo Land Fraud information
The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the biggest government fraud in the history of the United States. Big land companies would bribe government officials to let them by the land for dirt cheap prices. Then they would sell the land to settlers for outrages prices. The U.S. government punished Georgia for doing this by taking it's western lands. -
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American Revolution
[American Revolution Information](www.theamericanrevolution.org)
The colonies revolted aginst Britian. It was the war that got the colonies their freedom. The colonies won even though their army consisted of mostly untrained farmers. -
Battle of Kettle Creek
[Battle of Kettle Creek Information](www.goergiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/battle-kettle-creek)
There were only 340 patriots but there were 700 loyalists. The patrionts attempted a two pronged attck. Some patriot soldiers tried to cross a swamp but became bogged down. The tide turned when the loyalist commander was killed and the loyalists began to flee. It was the only major victory by the patriots in Georgia. -
Elijah Clarke
Elijah Clarke Infomation
Elijah was a commander at Kettle Creek. He lead a force of 340 patriots aginst a force of 700 loyalists. -
Austin Dabney
He was a slave who became a private in the Georgia militia. He fought the British during the revilutionary war. He served as an artilleryman under Elijah Clarke at the Battle of Kettle Creek. Every soldier that fought in the war was given money and land. Austin almost did not get gis money and land because he used to be a slave but eventualy he got it. -
University of Georgia founded
Unitversity of Georgia Information
The University of Georgia was the first lannd grant university in Georgia. Abraham Baldwin was the founder of the University of Georgia. It made more people in Georgia smarter than there would have been without it. It even brought more culture to Georgia. -
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Constitutional Convention
Reprisenitives from every state was sent to this place to discuss how this government would work. No one in history before this has ever sat down and thought about what kind of government they wanted. Other counrties have always ended up with their type of government through war or some other way that did not involve talking about it. Americans were proud that their government would be decided in a civil way. -
Georgia Founded
[Georgia Founded](americanhistory.about.com/cs/colonialamerica/p/georgiacolony.htm)
James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia. He founded the colony for the poor and prisioners who have not committed a serious crime. He named Georgia after King George the second. Georgia was the thirteenth state to be founded. -
Geogia Ratifies the Constitution
Georgia was the fourth state to ratifie the constitution. Georgia also modled its state constitution after the U.S. constitution. Coupled with public outrage over the invovlvement of state legislators in the Yazoo Land Fraud. This made revisions inevitable. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin information
The cotton Gin turned cotton into a major crop in most southern states. Before the cotton gin you had to hand pick sotton seeds out of the cotton which was realy hard. The cotton gin had spinning metal picks that would seperate the seeds from the cotton when you turned the handle. The cotton gin increased the demand for slaves in the south. -
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Capital moves to Louisville
Capital moves to Louisville information
The capital was moved to Louisville because the population was moving west. The state of Georgia wanted their capital to be in the center of its state. Louisville became a trade center when it was capital. Louisville was no longer the state capital after ten years because it could not access the growing west population. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise Information
The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to kepp balance between free and slave states. Missouri became a slave stateand Maine became a free state. The south and north supported this. Rvery time a state became free another would become a slave state. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Dahlonega Gold Rush information
The Dahlonega Gold Rush started when gold was found on Cherokee land. Georgia citizens started to pore into Cherokee land looking for gold. They would kick the Cherokee off their lands so they could mine gold.It was one of the reasons the trail of tears happend. -
Worcester vs Georgia
Worceste vs Goergia
This was a court case between the Cherokees and the Supreme Court. The Cherokees were saying that the taking of their land was unconstitutional. The court agreed with them and said that Georgia should stop what their doing. President Jacson would not inforce the law though. -
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Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears information
The Trail of Tears was when Cherokees were removed from Georgia and other states. Their was little food on the trail of tears so many died of starvation. Some people would die from being tired. The trail of tears ended in modern day Oklahoma. -
Georgia Platform
It was instrumental in averting a national crisis. It helped keep the state from disunioning. Even before the Civil War southerners wanted to disunion. Georgia might have left the Union sooner ten it did originaly if not for this. -
Compromise of 1850
compromise of 1850 Information
The Compromise of 1850 was made to keep a balance with free and slave states. The fugitive slave law was introduced to bring slaves that escaped north back south. Utah voted to be a slave state. New Mexico also voted to be a slave state. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act was a law that made free state or slave state depending on popular sovereignty. This lead to alot of proslavery settlers to move in from Missouri. It also lead to anti slavery settlers to move in from Iowa. This lead to alot of fighting in Kansas and Nebraska. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Case Information
The Dred Scott Case was a slave seuing for his freedom. The court ruled that he was property and will be property where ever he went. This lead to the south miving into free states with slaves. This upset the north which was mostly anti slavery. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1850 Information
This was the election that Abraham Lincon won. It made the southern states want to leave the Union. None of the southern states voted for him it was only the northern states that elected him. So the southern states left the Union because of that one election. -
Klu Klux Klan
The Klu Klux Klan was originaly a group made up of Confederate soldiers after the Civil War. They would tfrighten blacks and terrorrise the country side. They slowly faded away until The Leo Frank case were Leo Frank a jewish man was accused of murdering Mary phagan and found guilty. This made the modern KKK called "Knights of Mary Phagan". They became very large and they even had a march in Washington D.C. where thousands of people marched. They are no longer a big group but they still exist. -
Henry McNeal Turner
He was one of the most influencal black leaders of the late nineteenth century in Georgia. He was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was also an active politition. He was a reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon. -
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Union Blochade of Georgia
Union Blockade of Georgia information
The Union blockade was ment to keep ships going into and out of Georgia ports. The origional plan was called the Anaconda Plan. Some small fast moving ships would sneak past the blockade and trade with Georgia and Foriegn countries. The people that never got caught became very rich. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison
The Andersonville prison camp was a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers. When the war started the prison regularly traded prisoners with the north. Later in the war they stopped trading prisoners so the prison camp started to overflow. The Andersonville prison camp barley had any food, clean water, and medicine for the Union prisoners. -
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Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation information
It was a document effecting 4 million slaves. If the south surrendered sslavery would continue. If the south did not surrender all slavery would be removed from the U.S. The Confederate leaders chose to continue to fight. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg information
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. It was the turning point in the war for the north. It was the Souths last try to win the war. Whoever won that battle would have won the war. -
Battle of Chichamauga
Battle of Chickamauga information
Union forces moved aginnst the major Confederate railroad center in Chattanooga. The Union was defeated by a Confederate general called Braxton Bragg. Braxton did not follow the reatreting Union forces and kill them. The Union ragrouped and attacked agine and won forcing Braxton further south. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign information
Sherman was a Union General who marched his troops on Atlanta. His troops were slowed down by the retreating Confederate troops burning all the bridges. Sherman wanted Atlanta because it was one of the souths only industrial cities and it was a railroad hub. After Sherman finaly captured Atlanta he burned it down and left. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-march-sea
Sherman marched his troops from
Atlanta to Savannah in a 60 mile radius. he burned anything that supported the
confederacy. He burned down farms, houses, plantations, and towns. He didn't burn down Savannah though because he knew it was a major port and would help the Union win the war. -
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Freedman's Bureau
http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau/
The Freedman's Bureau was created to help freed slaves. It helped them get money and homes. It even gave them a education. They even helped some poor whites. -
Thirteenth Amendment
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and made all blacks free. It was meant to weaken the Confederacy. It took away the South's main work force. It made most of the southern economy crumble. -
Fourteenth Amendment
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
The Fourteenth Amendment states that anyone who is born in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen. Everyone will have equal protection. The state cannot take away a persons life, liberty, or property without due process of law. States may not make laws that take away a persons rights. -
Fifteenth Amendment
It said that every man has the right to vote. This made it were African American men who were just freed could vote. Still they were denied this right in the south with many different ways. They would have to pay a poll tax or do a literesy test. -
Atlanta Braves
It was the first major league professional sports team to call the deep south its home. The citizens welcomd the new team with a downtown parade. In 1966 they played their first regular season game in Atlanta. There was a crowed of more then 50,000 enthusiastic fans. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. who helped bring the Braves to Atlanta threw out the cerimonial first ball. -
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International Cotton Expo
International CottonExpo
The International Cotton Expo was held in Atlanta Georgia. It was set up in Park in 1881. There were 40,000 residents at the time and they were happy to host the Expo and bring investments to Georgia. During the two in a half month period it had 400,000 visitors. It helped Georgia rebuild its economy after the Civil War. -
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Tom Watson and the Populists
Tom Watson and the Populists Information
The Populist party was formed for poor farmers and poor blacks. It demanded that the government make more money to make the price of crops go up and help the farmers. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Homer Adolph Plessy who was seven-eighths Caucasian sat in a whites only section of a rail car and refused to move to the blacks only rain car and was arrested. He then went to the supreme court saying that the seperate but equal laws are aginst the U.S. Constitution. The sourt ruled it constitutional because if whites and blacks had the same quality utilities then it satisfied the Fourteenth Amendment making seperate but eaqual constitutional. -
Booker T. Washington
He formed the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. He was an advisor to the President. In 1872 he left home and walked 500 miles to Hampton Normal Agriculteral Institute in Virginia. He was alloed to go to school there but he had to become a janitor there to pay for his tuition. Soon the headmaster saw him as a hard working person and gave him a scholar ship. -
Alonzo Herndon
He was born into slavery. After slavery was abolished he learned how to become a barber. he than opened a shop in Atlanta. He got alot of businessbecause he was such an exillant barber. He ended up with three barber shops and they were all renound for being the best barbers in the south. He then opended up a life insurance agency called "Atlanta Mutual Insurance Association". He hired college students to run it for him since he didnt know how to run an insurance agency. It became very sucsessful -
John and Lugenia Hope
John was an important African American educator and race leader. He bacame the first African AMerican president of Morehouse College in 1906. Lugenia was a social activist, reformer, and community organizer. She worked to improve African American communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
1906 Atlanta Riot Information
The 1906 Riot in Atlanta happend because of news pappers selling fake stories about blacks attacking white wemon. Whites and blacks were going through the streets of Atlanta fighting each other. Some whites were walking around the streets with guns. The state militia was called in to help keep the peace. -
WEB DuBois
He was an African American educator, historian, sociologist, and social activist. He adressed problems of racial descrimination, black social problems, and world peace. He contributed immensely to the black intellectual and activist community. He also produced a number of studies that explored the social, economic, and political conditions of Africans in Georgia and all across the U.S. -
Leo Frank Case
Leo Frank was a Jewish man who worked at a national pencil factory in Atlanta was sent to trail for the murder and rape of Mary Phagan. A janitor said that he had helped Frank move Mary's body into the basement. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. later the governor changed his sentence from death to life in prison. A lynch mob then broke into the prison where he was held without fireing a shot and took Leo Frank to Mary Phagan's home town and hung him. -
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WW1
The main cause of this war was because of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. His death Made countries form alliances due to treates signed by by eash country. America at the begining mostly sold weapons to the British and other members of the Allies. German U-boats would sink ships with Americans on board them but it wasnt until the U.S. intersepted a telegram from Germany to Mexico saying that they would be givin land they ost to America back if they fought. -
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County Unit System
The county Unit System made it where the smaller counties would have the most political power. Polititions would target rural areas of Georgia bacause of this. So many campains were amed at small farms and small towns. When the County Unit System ended in 1962 polititions started targeting people that lived in larger cities. -
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was born in Georgia. He served as the Governor of Georgia and the President of the U.S. In 2002 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian nature. when his father died in 1953 he resigned from his naval commision to take up the family business. While he was in charge of the business it florished. -
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The great depression
One of the biggest reasons the Great Depression started was because the stock market crashed in 1929. People were running to the banks to get all of their money out of their savings. This made the banks run out of money and close down. This turned many people who were millionaires into homless people over night. the drought going on in mide America wasnt helping either. The soil was to dry for farmers to grow any crops. It was a result of many years the same crop being planted in the same spot. -
Eugene Talmadge
He served three terms as governor and three terms as state commissioner of agriculture. He was elected agine in 1946 but died before taking office. He was popular in rural areas. While running for governor he promissed to run the government economicly, balance the state budget, lower utility rates, reduce the price of automobile tags to three dollars, and reorganize the state highway board. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
National farm organizations helped make this New Deal act happen. It helped restore prices paid to farmers for their goods. The federal government would pay farmers to grow less crops. When the farmers were no longer making excess crops the price for their crops startd to go up. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
This was a New Deal program that created jobs for young unimployed men. They woul plant trees to prevent soil erosion. Most of the work was out west but most of the young men were in the east. So to deal with this problem the U.S. military started ransporting men form the east to the west. -
Richard Russell
He is best known for strengthening the national offence and opposing civil rights legislation. He helped secure or maintain fiftenn military installations. He was also an advocate for small farmers and for soil and water conservation. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1933 to his death in 1971. -
Rural Electrification
This was a part of President Roosevelts New Deal program. The government had to provide electricity to rural areas around the country. Private electricity componies could not afford to put power lines in rural areas because it was to expensive. So the federal government put up power lines in rural areas so they to could have electricity. -
Social Security
President Roosevelt signed the the Social Security Act. It was created for U.S. citizens who could not work. The citizen has to try to get a job. If the government sees that you are not trying to get a job your social security will be taken away from you. -
World War 2
World War 2 was between the Allies and the Axis Powers. The Allies were the U.S., Britian, France, USSR, and Poland. The Axis Powers were Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy. Nazi Germany thought that they were the master race and tha tall other races were below them. Nazi Germany was the leader of the Axis Powers. The Allies wanted to stop Germany and all of the other Axis Powers from taking over all of Europe, Asia, and America. -
William B. Hartsfield
He came from humble origins who became one the the greatest mayors of Atlanta. He is credited for turning Atlanta into the aviation power house it is today. He established Atlanta's first airport. When he first became mayor of Atlanta the city was in poor condition from years of depresion but by the time he was out of office The city was thriving. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was when the Nazis hunted down jews and killed them or put them in concentration camps. During the time of the Holocaust 2 out of 3 jews were killed. The Nazis thought that they were inferior to Germans and threatened the German purity. In the concentration camps jews were forced to work until they were dead and then their odies were burned. Some jews were killed as soon as they got into the camp with deadly gas. -
Carl Vinson
He is recognized as the father of the "two ocean navy". He was the foremost advocate of a strong national defense. He helped make the U.S. Navy large enough to battle in the Atlantic and Pacific ocean at the same time. If the U.S. had not had a navy large enough to gaurd on each side of its oceans then one side would have been unprotected and our country might have come under attack. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was when the Japanese attacked a naval base in Hawaii. It angered America and forced them into WW2. The Japanese attacked the U.S. because they stoped tradeing with them and it angered them so they attacked us. After the attack president Franklin Roosevelt gavve his famous speach were he says "This day will live in infamy. -
1946 Governor's Race
Eugine Talmadge won the democratic primary for governor. He was grinteed to win because the Republican party did not have a nominee. He had bad health though and died before he could be sworn in. Then three people were fighting for the right to be governor Talmadges son Herman Talmadge, Thompson, and Ellis Arnall. Ellis Arnall eventualy surrendered his claim to the office. The supreme court ruled that Melvin Thompson would become the governor because he was the lieutenant Governor. -
Atlanta Hawks
They are apart of theNational Basketball Association (NBA). The Hawks joined the Falcons and the Braves as another professional sport team in Georgia. They play at the Philips Arena in the heart of downtown Atlanta. Their mascots are Skyhawk and Harry the Hawk. -
Adrew Young
Andrew Young
Andrew Young was born into a prominate midle class family. His mother was a teacher and his father was a dentist. He graduated from Howard University in 1951. Then he became a pastor in Thomasville, Ga. He stoped being a pastor and joined a civil rights group lead by Martin Luther King jr. He eventualy became a trusted aid to Martin Luther King. -
Brown VS Board of Education
Brown VS board of Education was a court case about segrication in public schools. It ended legal segrigation of public schools. It gave young African Americans the opritunite to get a better education. It was a great victory in the fight for equal rights for African Americans. -
1956 State Flag
In protest of the Civil Rights Movement Georgia changed its flag to incorperate the Confederate war flag. This made many people angry. It was changed in the early 2000s. Then it was changed agine a few years later. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox info
He was born into a working class family in 1915. He droped out of school and started working at th Atlantic Steel and the Works Administration. During WW2 he worked at the Bell Bomber factory in Marietta. In 1947 he opened the Pickrick Cafeteria. It sold home styled food and it woas close to the Georgia Institute of Technology. He eventualy closed it rather thent intergrate. -
Herman Talmadge
He served as governor for a brief time in 1947. Then agine in 1948 to 1954. In 1956 he was elected into the U.S. Senate. He stayed in the Senate until his defeat in 1980. He was a democrate that was governor at a time of political transition in the state. He served in the Senate during a time of great political change as well. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Comittee (SNCC)
They were young African Americans who wanted to participate in the Civil Rights Movement. The Committee came to be called SNCC. Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Lonnie King were the leaders of the SNCC. In their early years they worked very closely with the SCLC. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
They both aplied to UGA several times but they would never get excepted. on September 2,1960 they filed a civil suit aginst UGA. The jugde said that they would have been excepted if they were not colored. So they eventualy got excepted into UGA. Over 100 UGA students stood infront of the school and chanted "2,4,6,8 we dont want to intergrate!" Three days later a riot broke out infrotn of Hunters dorm. police had to disperce the rioters with gas. -
The Albany Movement
Martin Luther King came to Albany to help stop segrigation in the town. Him and his protesters were arested several times before giving up. Black residents of Albany did not think it was a defeat though. It helped desegrigate Albany. -
Sibley Commission
Sibley aposed intergration. He thought that hat there shouldnt be full segrigation he thought that local buisnesses should be able to segrigate if they wanted to. He servade georgians that were aginst intergration and asked them if they would rather fully segrigate or only have small buisnesses that segrigated. 60 percent of them wanted complete segrigation. -
March on Washington
It was organixed to force president Kennedy and Congress into helping the Civil Rights Movment. 250,000 people gathered at the Washington monument to show their commentment to the Civil Rights Movment. Several different races marched together. It was also when Dr. Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream speach. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act was created to give African Americans more rights and to desegrigate places all over America. It helped many African Americans get better jobs and have a better life. There were no longer colored sections at public places like busses, trains, resteraunts, movie theaters, etc. African American children are now able to go to schools with the best equipment for learning. -
Atlanta Falcons
In 1965 it Bacame the first major football team in Atlanta. They are a part of the national football confrence (NFC). Ticket sales for the new club reached a record of 45,000 ticket sold. The Falcons original name was Five Smiths, Inc.). -
Ivan Allen Jr.
He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth. He was able to keep calm during the Civil Rights Movement and keep violence happening in the streets. He also served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster during WW1. He also headed Atlanta's Community Chest Drive in 1947. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He gave the "I Have a Dream" speach. He was assassinated on April 4,1968. He helped African Americans all over the country get rights exactly like the whites had. -
Benjamin Mays
He was a longterm president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was also a mentor for Martin Luther King Jr. He was also the most articulate and outspoken critics of segrigation. He also filled leadership spots in several national and international organizations like NAACP, YMCA, the World Council of Churches, the United Negro College Fund, the National Babtist Convention, the Urban League, the Southern Confrence for Human Welfare, and the Southern Conference Educational Fund. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
He served eight years as mayor and then returned for a 3rd term. He established affermitive action programs that made the portion of ctiy buisness going to minority firms rose dramatically. Since he was a lawyer in the securities field, he continued to be a highly influential force in city politics after leaving elected office. After he died in 2012 a international terminal named after him opened at the Heartsfield International Airport. -
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1996 Olympic Games
1996 Olympic Games Info
Atlanta went under major construction for the Summer Olympic Games. Streets and side walks were inproved. The houseing pattern was changed. more parking was built and new sports venues were also built. Some people said that Atlanta bribed Olympic officals into voting on Atlanta for the games.
