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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Period
Paleo came from Asia on the Bering strait land bridge. They where nomadic , move from place to another following the food sources. They never establised permanet settement. they kill animals with large spear heads they call them ' clovis point. ' They hanted lerge game animals such as mammo and other things. They didn' t have any trade or have religion. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Period
They do seasonal migration return to same spots each season ' pattern.' They live in caves, pithouse , and under ground shelters. They are becoming more reliant on groups. They are doing simple pottery making smaller, thinney ,shearheads , and move pointed. They eat smaller animals now like deer , bear , turkey , fish , oysters , shellfish , and nuts/berries . They don't trade or have a religion. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Period
They are move social beagon forming + ribes. They started to live in areas for long periods of times and they have villages now. They have move advanced pottery. They have bow and arrow. They have expreiment with farming with sunflowers , squqsh , gourds , beans , and maize. They starting to organized trade. Their religion they have start to bury people. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian period
The life in permanet settlement. They development of triba; gor't " chiefdom." the technology advancenent of pottery , bow and arrow. They start to make jewelry. They live off of farming corn , beans , squash and they hunt small animals . They organized trade between tribes / village. Their religion they had temples and mounds. -
Nov 15, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando De Soto exploned Georgia in search of gold. His soldiers killed thousands of natives during battles. Thousands of natives died from diseases brought by explorers. Opened the door for fusthen explonation by other countries such as Spain , France, and England. Jowrnals kept on the expedition helped understand the motins tistes. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds, a captain in the British royal navy, served as Georgia's first royal governor from late 1754 to early 1757.Reynolds returned to England in 1751 in search of a new command.Reynolds arrived at Savannah on October 29, 1754.Reynolds's administration created great distress for Georgians, initiated a loss of revenue, and gave the colony a negative image for potential immigrants. thats all you need to know. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded by James Oglethrope. James Oglethrope was given a charter. When Oglethrope was looking for land he found indian village called Yammacraw. Oglthrope had to meet the lndian about the land he want. That men name was Yamacraw Bluff he was friendly , very tall , kind , and fair. -
Charter of 1732
The charter was granted on April 21 ,1732. King George signed the charter on June 7 ,1732. Oglethorpe belived that the best way for the worthy poor to find a new life was to start a new colony. The Georgia Charter granted an area of all those lands , countries and territories. That's every thing you need to know about Charter of 1732. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Georgia salzburgers, a group of german - speaking protestant colonists founded the town of ebenezer. They arrived in 1734 they support King George II of England. -
Highland Scots Arrive
Highland scots arrive in Georgia in January of 1736. Characteristics are large , miliitarisie , warriors , harded , fearless , strong , and James Oglethorpe . They recruited this group to help protect Georgia from the spanish. The settled on the Altamaha river and formed the city of parien. According to parker , the scots were not afraid of the spanish ot of their fort. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis, the second royal governor of Georgia, has been called "Georgia's second founder." Georgia had no self-government under the Trustees (1732-52), and the first royal governor, John Reynolds (1754-57), failed as an administrator.Under the leadership of Ellis (1757-60) Georgians learned how to govern themselves, and they have been doing so ever since.From 1750 until 1755 Ellis carried cargoes of slaves from Africa to Jamaica. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia, serving from 1760 to 1782 , with brief nterruption early in the American Revolution (1775-83). Almost alone among colonial governors, Wright was a popular and able administrator and servant of the crown. He played a key role in retarding the flame of revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every other colony. -
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Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary War (1775-83) history of Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the state's public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation -
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Americam Revolution
At the start of the 1770's Georgia was the least populated of the 13 American colonies. Of the 50,000 inhabitants, half were slaves, and almost all of it's citizens were clustered near the coast. As events to the north began to lead to war with Britain, Georgia radicals disposed of Royal Governor James Wright and elected a new government. When the colonial representatives met in Philadelphia, Georgia joined The Continental Congress. In 1776, this Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. -
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Constitutional Convention
On May 15, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, issued “A Resolve” to the thirteen colonies: “Adopt such a government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the safety and happiness of their constituents in particular and America in general.” Between 1776 and 1780 each of the thirteen colonies adopted a republican form of government. What emerged was the most extensive documentation of the powers of government -
Capital Moved To Louisville
In February 1733 James Oglethorpe and the first Georgia colonists landed at Yamacraw Bluff. Where they laid out the new settlement of Savannah. Three months later, Oglethorpe and the Yamacraw chief Tomochichi signed a treaty. Which ceded Creek lands from the Savannah to the Altamaha rivers, inland from the coast as far as the tide flowed, to the Trustees. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in the Georgia militia and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War (1775-83). He was the only African American to be granted land by the state of Georgia in recognition of his bravery and service during the Revolution and one of the few to receive a federal military pension.
Born in Wake County, North Carolina, in the 1760s, Austin Dabney moved with his master, Richard Aycock, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in the late 1770s. In order to -
Elijah Clarke / Kettle Creek
Among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia, Elijah Clarke (sometimes spelled "Clark") was born in 1742, the son of John Clarke of Anson County, North Carolina. He married Hannah Harrington around 1763. As an impoverished, illiterate frontiersman, he appeared in the ceded lands, on what was then the northwestern frontier of Georgia, in 1773. -
University Of Georgia Founded
It all started Jan. 27,1785. Because the first state supported college or university. The ''land grant the university ''government granted the land for free the university. Abranham baldwin was the first U.G.A. president. There where two effect was more smart people more culture. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
The U.S. Constitution has always been contentious. Our sacred charter was born in controversy and remains so to this day. Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Only four went. And only two—Abraham Baldwin and William Few—signed the final document. The convention, chaired by
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Eli Whitney And The Cotton Gin
The textile industry was revolutionized when Eli Whitney invented a machine to separate the seeds from the cotton. The Cotton Engine, or Cotton Gin took a tedious and time-intensive process and turned it into a simple and quick process. This helped launch the massive cotton industry in the south. -
Missouri Compromise
The missouri compromise started March 4,1820. The compromise to keep the balance b/w free and slave states. Missouri enter as a slave. They drew a line at missouris southren borderas for slavery. It stay like that for 30 years. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
By late 1829 north Georgia, known at the time as the Cherokee Nation, was flooded by thousands of prospectors lusting for gold. Niles' Register reported in the spring of 1830 that there were four thousand miners working along Yahoola Creek alone. While in his nineties, Benjamin Parks recalled the scene in the Atlanta Constitution (July 15, 1894): -
Worcester V. Georgia
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians
Samuel Worcester, a missionary, defied Georgia through peaceful means to protest the state's handling of Cherokee lands. He was arrested several times as a result. With a team of lawyers, Worcester filed a lawsuit against the state that went all the way to the Supreme Court, where he finally won his case. Samuel Worcester constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. -
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Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called “Indian removal.” As an Army general, he had spent years leading brutal campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida–campaigns that resulted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of acres of land from Indian nations to white farmers. As president, he continued this crusade. -
Comromise of 1850
It started Sept. 1, 1850. California entering will upset the balance b/w free slave. The north california enter as a free state. The slave trade in Washington D.C. ends. The south fugitive slaves must be returned. The utah and N. Mexico get to vote on slavery. -
Georgia Platform Of 1830
Georgia Platform, statement of qualified support for the U.S. Union among Georgia conservatives following the Compromise of 1850.Drawn up by Charles J. Jenkins and adopted by a state convention on Dec. 10, 1850, at Milledgeville, the Georgia Platform consisted of a set of resolutions accepting the Compromise of 1850. It was not an endorsement of the compromise, but it said that Georgia would abide by the compromise provisions “as a permanent adjustment of the sectional controversy.” -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott, a black slave, and his wife had once belonged to army surgeon John Emerson, who had bought him from the Peter Blow family of St. Louis. After Emerson died, the Blows apparently helped Scott sue Emerson’s widow for his freedom, but lost the case in state court. Because Mrs. Emerson left him with her brother John Sanford (misspelled Sandford in court papers), a New York citizen, Scott sued again in federal court, claiming Missouri citizenship. Scott’s lawyers eventually appealed to the -
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. At the time of his death in 1927, he was also Atlanta's wealthiest black citizen, owning more property than any other African American. 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 an -
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Sherman Atlanta Campaign
The "Atlanta campaign" is the name given by historians to the military operations that took place in north Georgia during the Civil War (1861-65) in the spring and summer of 1864.By early 1864 most Confederate Southerners had probably given up hopes of winning the war by conquering Union armies. The Confederacy had a real chance, though, of winning the war simply by not being beaten. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The Union Blockade was the closing of Confederate ports 1861-1865, during the American Civil War by the Union Navy, a form of economic warfare.. The U.S. Navy maintained a massive effort on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the local and international movement of cotton, supplies, soldiers and arms into or out of the Confederacy. The vast majority of vessels from other nations obeyed the blockades. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
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. -
Election Of 1860
The Democratic Party was in disarray in 1860 when they convened in Charleston, South Carolina to choose their presidential candidate. Southern elements insisted that the nominating convention make a strong statement supporting slavery in the territories. Western elements, however, opposed that stance and argued for an endorsement of popular sovereignty. The latter position prevailed and the Southern delegates walked out. -
Battle of Antietam
On September 17, 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil.Though McClellan failed toutlilize his numerical superiority to crush Lee’sarmy, he was able to check the Confederate advance intothe north. Aftera string ofUnion defeats, this tacticalvictory provided Abraham Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Battle of Gettysburg
Having concentrated his army around the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Gen. Robert E. Lee awaited the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, early Union success faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow’s Knoll. The following day saw Lee strike the Union flanks, leading to heavy battle at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Peach Orchard, Culp’s Hill and East Cemetery Hill. -
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Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga was the biggest battle ever fought in Georgia, took place on September 18-20, 1863, during the Civil War (1861-65). With 34,000 casualties, it is generally accepted as the second bloodiest engagement of the war; only the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, with 51,000 casualties, was deadlier. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. -
WEB DuBois
W.E.B. DuBois challenged the oppressive dimensions of the society in which he lived. His increasingly radical stances on the political and economic issues of his day, as well as his emigration to Ghana, heightened his controversy in some circles. For many, time has not lessened the more provocative aspects of his life. -
Freedman's Bured
During Reconstruction, the economy of the South was in extreme disarray. Many soldiers did not return from the war or came back home wounded and unable to work in the field. During this time, many freedmen (former slaves during the Civil War) were starting to look for jobs and housing. The Freedmen's Bureau was established in March of 1865 to help freedmen and poor whites find jobs and homes, it offered food and clothing, gave medical attention, and set up a system to better education for them. -
Thirteeth Amendment
The Thirteeth Amendment to the U.S. constitution it continued to the work of the Emancipation Proclamation,officiallu abolished slavery.The passed by congress in January 1865 it was submitted to the states for ratification. It was ratified in December 1865. President Andrew Johnson made ratification of the amendment a requirement for the southern states to rejoin the union. -
KKK
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. -
Henry McNeal Turner
One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia , Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Georgia, later rising to the rank of bishop. Turner was also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from M he became an outspoken advocate of back-to-Africa emigration -
Booker T. Washington
Across the landscape of the most anguished era of American race relations (1895-1915) strode the self-assured and influential Booker T. Washington. The foremost black educator, power broker, and institution builder of his time, Washington in 1881 founded Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to industrial and moral education and to the training of public school teachers. From his southern small-town base, he created a national political network of schools, newspapers, and the Nat -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship on the freedman and forbade any states fromdenying anyone the ''equal protechion of the law.'' Congress passed the amendment in June 1866, and it was vatified in July 20,1868. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment granted all male citizens the right to vote regardkss of '' race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'' the amendment was submitted to the states in February 1869 and ratifiend in February 3,1870. -
John and Lugenia Hope
To accomplish his goals, Hope embraced several civil rights organizations, including W. E. B. Du Bois's Niagara Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the southern-based Commission on Interracial Cooperation. He was also very active in such social service organizations as the National Urban League, the "Colored Men's Department" of the YMCA, and the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools. Hope was very well known among both blacks and w -
Atlanta Braves
The Braves are the oldest continuosly opreating pro sports franchise in Ameria.They were in Milwaukee, Brooklen, and last but not least Atlanta. They joined the National Association on April 22, 1871. -
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Thomas E. Watson
Watson did not remain in the legislature for long, however; he chose to resign his seat before the end of the session. His writings indicate that he was dissatisfied with the slow pace of the lawmaking process and resentful of the growing influence of the "New South" as it moved away from the traditional agrarian economy toward more industrial sectors. -
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International Cotton Exposition
Atlanta held its first exposition, named the International Cotton Exposition, in Oglethorpe Park in 1881. The city then had fewer than 40,000 residents, and the primary sense in hich the first .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.
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Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was born on August 1, 1894. He refused to allow the poverty and racism of his place of birth to stop him from becoming something great. In 1920, Mays entered the University of Chicago as a graduate student. Although his education at Chicago was interrupted several times by Morehouse college. In 1940 Mays became the president of Morehouse College. His most famous student at Morehouse was Martin Luther King Jr. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The case came from Louisiana, which in 1890 adopted a law providing for “equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races” on its railroads. In 1892, passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car. He was brought before Judge John H. Ferguson of the Criminal Court for New Orleans, who upheld the state law. The law was challenged in the Supreme Court on grounds that it conflicted with the 13th and 14th Amendments.By a 7-1 vote, the Court said that a state law that “impl -
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Richard Russell
Richard Russell was an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party. Hhe briefly served as speaker of the Georgia house, and as Governor of Georgia before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, -
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County Unit System
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. All 159 counties were classified according to population into one of three categories: urban, town, and rural. Urban counties were the 8 most populous; town counties were the next 30 in population size; and rural counties constituted the remaining 121. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot or Atlanta Riot of 1906 was the first race riot to take place in the capital city of Georgia. The riot lasted from September 22 to September 24 and was the culmination of a number of factors, including lingering tensions from reconstruction, job competition, black voting rights, and increasing desire of African Americans to secure their civil rights. -
Leo Frank Case
On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain, went to the pencil factory to pick up her $1.20 pay for the twelve hours she had worked that week. Leo Frank, the superintendent of the factory, paid her. He was the last person to acknowledge having seen Phagan alive. In the middle of the night the factory watchman found her bruised and bloodied body in the cellar and called the police. The city was aghast when it heard the news. -
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World War 1
In late June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. An escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leading by mid-August to the outbreak of World War I, which pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. The Allies were joined after 1917 by the United States. The four years of the Great War. -
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Martin Luther king Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister from Atlanta Georgia who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens throughout the United States. All of Dr. King's protesting and work was done peacefully.. In the spring of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. organized a demonstration in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. This is where he gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. King waas assasinated on April 4th1968 -
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Great Deppression
The Great Deppression was the longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the western world. It began soon after the stock market crashed, which sent Wall Street into a panic. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the state sponsored percicution and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi. The German also targeted other groups because of their racial inferiority, the disabled and some of the slaves during this time period. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. Originally for young men ages 18–23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17–28 -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Within days of his inauguration in 1933, President Roosevelt called Congress into special session and introduced a record 15 major pieces of legislation. One of the first to be introduced and enacted was the AAA, the Agricultural Adjustment Act. -
Rural Electrification
Although nearly 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity by the 1930s, only ten percent of rural dwellers did. Private utility companies, who supplied electric power to most of the nation's consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads. Anyway, they said, most farmers, were too poor to be able to afford electricity. -
Eugene Talmadge
He was the govornot of Ga during the Great depression. He had a lot of support from the rural white population. He used the county unit system to his advantage. he fired enemies and because he was an outspoken opponet to FDR's New Deal programs. he was elected to a thrid term but died before he could serve that term. -
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World War 2
In Georgia, southern states were critical to the war efforts. 320,000 people from Georgia served in the US armed forces during WW2, others started to work at factories to help with the war efforts. World War 2 lifted Georgia out of the Great Depression. -
Pearl Harbor
December seventh, 1941, he attacking planes came in two waves. The first hits its target at 7:53 AM, the second hits at 8:55. 9:55 was when it was all over. Behind them they left chaos, 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet. The Pacific Fleet included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. -
1946 governers race
For a brief period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors. Tis was a bizzre and complicated thing. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia’s governor in 1946, but died before being sworn in. Eugene’s son, Herman, was appointed by the state Legislature to fill his spot. However Melvin tompson, the lieutenant governer claimed to be the governer also. Governor Ellis Arnall refused to vacate the office because there was no clear winner. Herman was finaly sworn in as governer. -
Herman Talmadge
He was govornor of Ga. He did not want to integrate the state. he helped with public education. He changed the school year to nine months. -
Brown V. Board of education
The Brown Vs. Board of education was a major case that ended legal segregation. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously announced an end to public segregation in schools in the famous Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case.Linda Brown was an African-American third-grader whose father, Oliver Brown, had sued the school system in Topeka, Kansas. Brown ststed that the school system was discriminating against African-American students in violation of the 14th Amendment. -
1956 Georgia state flag
In 1956, Governor Marvin Griffin signed legislation to change the Georgia flag to one that included the Confederate battle emblem on it. State Senators Jefferson Lee Davis and Willis Harden sponsored the flag bill, which sailed through the legislature, with no public hearings. It became Georgia’s official banner for 45 years. It was changed in 2001. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded in April of 1960. It was formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. The new group played a large part in the Freedom Rides to tery to desegregate buses and in the marches organized by Martin Luther King Jr.Ella Baker encouraged those who formed SNCC to look beyond integration to broader social change and to view King’s principle of nonviolence more as a political tactic than as a way of life. -
Hamilton Holmes and charlayne Hunter
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African American students admitted to the University of Georgia.They arrived on campus to register for classes on January 9, 1961. Protests and riots by white students who were opposed to the university's desegregation resulted in a temporary suspension for Hunter and Holmes. They soon returned to campus after a series of court orders and began attending classes. they both graduated in 1963. -
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The Albany Movement
Civil rights activists take part in a series of protests in November, meetings and marches in Albany, Georgia. This waas later called the Albany Movement. Martin Luther King went to Albany in December and joined the protesters. He stayed for nine months. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
He was a mayor of Atlanta. They brought growth to Ga. He brought sports teams to Ga. Helped during the civil rights movement. -
March on Washington
Despite gaining their freedom from slavery after the end of the civil war, African Americans were still facing legal discrimination in the 1950s and early 1960s. This included segregation of schools, lower wages, and discrimination when applying for jobs. The civil rights movement was an effort to bring these issues to the attention of lawmakers and the nation. One of the planned events was a march on Washington D.C. in 1963. An estimated 200000 to 300000 perople showed up for the march -
Civil Rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the most important civil rights laws in the history of the United States. It outlawed discrimination, ended racial segregation, and protected the voting rights of minorities and women. The slaves were set free after the Civil War and both women and African American people were given the right to vote with the 15th and the 19th amendments. -
Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965.The Falcons play their home games at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta. he Falcons are tied with the Dolphins (who also began play in 1966) for being the oldest NFL franchise in the Deep South, and are the oldest NFC team in that region -
Atlanta Hawks
They play at Phillips Arena. The team colors are red, black, and gold. The mascots are the Skyhawk and Harry the Hawk. The moved from St. Louis. -
William B. Hartsfield
He was mayor of Atlanta. he made Atlanta a center for aviation. Helped during the civil rights movement. They brought growth to Ga. -
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Andrew Young
Andrew Ypung was a polotician, civil rights activist, and a buisnessman. He is responsible for Atlantas reputation as an international city. He won Georgias fifth district seat in the AHouse of represenatives. He became the first African American to be electedto congress from Georgia since reconstruction. -
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Maynard Jackson Elected Governer
Maynard Jacckson was one of Atlanta'a previous mayors. He was the first African American to serve as a mayor of a major southern city. He studied at morehouse and graduated in 1956. He became mayor in 1973 and helped with many things. He helped bring the olympic games to Atlanta in 1996. Jackson served several terms but they were not all consecutive terms. His first term started in 1973 and his last term was in 1992 -
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Jimmy Carter as president
immy Carter was the only Georgian to be elected president of the United states. He served as president from 1977 to 1981. He also served in the U.S. navy and two terms in the Georgia General Assembly. He was born is sumter county in Georgia. He won a Nobel peaace prize in 2002. -
Carl Vinson
Vinson was born in Fulton County, Georgia, attended Georgia Military College, and graduated with a law degree from Mercer University in 1902. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1908. After losing a third term following redistricting, he was appointed judge of the Baldwin County court, but following the sudden death of Senator Augustus Bacon, Representative Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia's 10th congressional district was nominated to fill Bacon's Senate seat and Vinson annou
