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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleo InformationThey are Nomadic. They followed their food sources. They have large spear heads-clovis point. Then, they lived in caves. Finally, they hunted large game animals like bison, mammonth, ground sloth, and saber tooth tiger. They also are hunters and gathering. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
Archaic Information They still followed their food, but migrated from season like a pattern. They used caves, pits, houses, and rocks for shelter. They used simple form of pottery. And used smaller triangler spear heads. Finally, their food were nuts, berries, deer, turkey, bear, fish, oysters, and shell fish. They also have some trade. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
Woodland InformationThey live in the 1000 BC to 1000 AD. They made the bow and arrow. And they experitmented growing crops. They have some organized trade. They live in area for long periods of time. They have more advanced pottery. Then, they have some reloigions perionds.(spirts) Finally their food are deer, squash, beans, sunflorwers, and other small game animals. -
Jan 1, 1000
Missippian
Mississippian InformationThey lived in the 1,000A.D. to 1.600 A.D..They are the most advanced, and first true civilization. They have a government. (chiefdom) They have large villages and cities. Then, they have the most advanced bow and arrow. They also have the most advanced pottery, statues, jewetry, and advaced stone tools. They also have some organize trade in their reigion.Finally, their foods are corn, beans, squash, and smaller game animals. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando De SotoHernando de Soto came to Georga to look for gold. but instead he found indians. The indains got deases from them . That they did not know how to cure it. Many of the indians died from the deases and the better weapons that desoto had. Henando desoto failed his mission to find gold while , many tribes of the indians are dead. -
Highland scots arrive
Highland Scots InformationThe Highland Scots arrived in Georgia on January 10,1736. From Scotland. James Oglethorp[e recruted them for the purpose of defending the colony. According to Parcker the highland scots were not afraid of the Spanish. For an example they said that "they would beat them out of their own forts. And live in their houses."They settled on the Altamha River and fomed the city of Darien. -
Charter of 1732
It was a singed by the king Goerge 2 .Its a document that laidout the rules and laws of the new colony . It is a Ira set up Georgia as a Trustee colony which ment it was govermentby a group of trustees. -
Salzburgers Arrive
Salzburgers InformationAccording to the Georgia Salzburgers society they formed the city of Ebenzer, but lefted becausethe location was bad. The Salzburgers were exliced from their home courtry, because they wre pretestants. They arrived in Goergia on March 12,1732.The Salzburgers invinted the first and oldest church building in Georgia. -
Georgia Founder
James OglethorpeAs visionary, James Oglethorpe social reformer, and military leader, James Oglethorpe conceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of Georgia. It was through his initiatives in England in 1732 that the British government authorized the establishment of its first new colony in North America in more than five decades. Later that year he led the expedition of colonists that landed in Savannah early in 1733. Oglethorpe spent most of the next decade in Georgia. -
Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis InformationHenry Ellis was the Second Royal Goernor of Georgia. He was very popular as governor, and brought the people together. Farming plantations grow 10,000 acres with 3,600 slaves. During Gov. Ellis' time, Georgia expereienced great economic growth. Gov. Ellis had to leave Georgia because of his poor health. -
John Reynolds
John Reynolds Information
John Reynolds was the 1st Royal Governor of Georgia. He served from October 1754 until February 1757. During that time, he helped established a bi-cameral governing body. They were the Commons House of Assembly, and the Governor’s Council. Gov. Reynolds became furious at a meeting and sent the Legislatures home. He did this to have sole authority over the colony. The people responded by writing protest letters to the King of England. This resulted in getting Gov. Reynolds removed from off -
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John Reynoldes was the first Royal Governor of Georgia. He also made two Bi-comerals Legislative called commons and Houses of Assembly and Goversnors council. -
James Wright
James Wright InformationJames Wright was Georgia’s 3rd and final Royal Governor. He served from 1760 through 1782. He expanded Gov. Ellis’ policies of large farms, trade, and self-government. Gov. Wright failed in his attempt to move the capital from Savannah. He enforces the Stamp Act, which caused much conflict. He was governor during the Revolutionary War. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
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. -
American Revolution
Amercan Revolution InformationGeorgia was one of the 13 colonies that rejected the British government. The Colonist felt they were overtaxed. The Patriots fought the British loyalist. Georgia had supplied many raw materials for England. Georgia elected to not send delegates to the First Continential Congress in 1774. After initial battles, Georgia changed their minds. Brithish forces maintained control of Georgia for most of the Revolutionary War. -
Austin Dabeny
Austin Dabney Information
Austin Dabney was the firt mixed-man to walk in Georgia. He was a slave who became a private in the GA Militia. He fought against the British during the Revolutionary War. 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. He was one of the few to receive a federal pension. -
Elijah Clarke Battle of Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke information
The Battle of Kettle Creek was a major encouter in the back country of Georgia during the Revolutionary War. It was fought in Wilkes County GA. A militia force of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered loyalist who were on their way to Augusta, GA. -
University of Georgia
University of Georgia InformationThe University of Georgia was the first state supported Unversity in Amercia. Land grant means that the government gives land for collage. UGA was established before the city of Athens. New people moved to Georgia to attemted collage at UGAwhich incraesed the poplation and state. -
Lousiville
Capital moved to LouisvilleInformationThe city Lousiville was named in horron of king Louis XVI of France for help in Revolution. It made the Capital City to keep a Centralized location for Western Expanshion. The leigestures in the upcoming demand the capital move to stay in Central City of the country -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia Ratifies the Constitution InformationGeorgia 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 George Washington, had the authority to revise the Articles of Confederation. Georgia called a special convention in Augusta to consider the proposed charter. The delegates voted unanimously to ratify the new U.S. Constitution, the fourth state to do so, on January 2, 1788. -
Eli Whitney
Eli WhitneyEli Whitney intened the cotton gin. Cotton became very profatable crop. Slavery and use of slaves increased exponentially. Georgia places cotton above every other crop imports all other goods rich plantations owerners. Slaves working without the cotton gin 1 pound ocotton, but with the cotton gin 50 pounds of cotton. -
Missouri Comprise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to maintain a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states. The slaveholding states feared that if they became outnumbered in Congressional representation that they would lack the power to protect their interests in property and trade -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Georgia Gold RushThe Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States. It started in 1828 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia Gold Belt. By the early 1840s, gold became difficult to find. Many Georgia miners moved west when gold was found in the Sierra Nevada in 1848, starting the California Gold Rush. -
Trail of Tears
Between 1790 and 1830 the population of Georgia increased six-fold. The western push of the settlers created a problem. Georgians continued to take American Indian lands and force both the Cherokee Indians and the Creek Indians into the frontier. By 1825 the Lower Creek had been completely removed from the state under provisions of the Treaty of Indian Springs. About 4000 Cherokee died as a result of the relocation. The route was called 'the trail of tears'. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. GeorgiaIn the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast. In the 1820s and 1830s Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees, who held territory within -
Georgia Platform
Georgia PlatformGEORGIA PLATFORM, a set of resolutions written by Charles J. Jenkins and adopted in December 1850 by a convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia, to decide on the course Georgia would take regarding the Compromise of 1850. It was the sense of these resolutions that the state would accept the compromise "as a permanent adjustment of the sectional controversy." However, the platform also issued a warning that any further encroachments made on the South's rights (such as hindering the interstate sl -
The Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Information Kansas Nebraska ActThe US Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854 and thereby the territories of Kansas and Nebraska were legally created. The controversial part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was allowing settlers in those territories to decide for themselves whether they would permit slavery in their respective territories by taking a vote on the question. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was used to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which was used to prohibit slavery north of 36°30´ latitude. -
Dred Scott Case
Information Dred Scott CaseDred Scott was a slave who sought his freedom through the American legal system. The 1857 decision by the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case denied his plea, determining that no Negro, the term then used to describe anyone with African blood, was or could ever be a citizen. The decision also invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had placed restrictions on slavery in certain U.S. territories. Northern abolitionists were outraged. The Dred Scott case became a rallying -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo HerndonAn 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 -
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry McNeal TurnerOne 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 Macon. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860The presidential election was held on November 6, 1860. Lincoln did very well in the northern states, and though he garnered less than 40 percent of the popular vote nationwide, he won a landslide victory in the electoral college. Even if the Democratic Party had not fractured, it is likely Lincoln still would have won due to his strength in states heavy with electoral votes. Lincoln did not carry any southern states. -
Union Blockade of Georgia
Union Blockade of GeorgiaThe battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War (1861-65). U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline took time to materialize, but by early 1862 the Union navy had positioned a serviceable fleet off the coast of the South's most prominent Confederate ports. In Georgia, Union strategy centered on Savannah. -
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam The Battle of Antietam, a.k.a. Battle of Sharpsburg, resulted in not only the bloodiest day of the American Civil War, but the bloodiest single day in all of American history. Fought primarily on September 17, 1862, between the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, it ended Gen. Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of a northern state. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation ProclamationThe Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the Civil War. It declared that "all persons held as slaves … shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"—but it applied only to states designated as being in rebellion, not to the slave-holding border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Information Battle of GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1–July 3, 1863), was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America, involving around 85,000 men in the Union’s Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade and approximately 75,000 in the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert Edward Lee. Casualties at Gettysburg totaled 23,049 for the Union (3,155 dead, 14,529 wounded, 5,365 missing). Confederate ca -
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of ChickamaugaChickamauga, the costliest two-day battle of the entire war, proved a spawning ground of lost Confederate opportunity. While Bragg laid siege to Chattanooga with an army inadequate to do the job, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the hero of Vicksburg, was given overall command in the West and set about changing the state of affairs. Reinforcements poured in from east and west. During the November campaign to raise the siege, the Army of the Cumberland evened the score with the rebels in an epic charg -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign"Sherman’s March to the Sea" from Atlanta to the seaport town of Savannah was intended, as Sherman said, "to make Georgia Howl." For weeks, he and his army virtually disappeared from the War Department’s view. Cutting loose from his supply lines, he had his men live off the land, seizing food and mounts from the local populations as they passed. He continued his strategy of destroying all military facilities in his path, along with all commercial targets that could be used militarily. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
Information Andersonville Prison CampIn February 1864, during the Civil War (1861-65), a Confederate prison was established in Macon County, in southwest Georgia, to provide relief for the large number of Union prisoners concentrated in and around Richmond, Virginia. The new camp, officially named Camp Sumter, quickly became known as Andersonville, after the railroad station in neighboring Sumter County beside which the camp was located. By the summer of 1864, the camp held the largest prison population. -
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Information Shermans Atlanta CampaignThe Battle of Atlanta was fought on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman, wanting to neutralize the important rail and supply hub, defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John B. Hood. After ordering the evacuation of the city, Sherman burned most of the buildings in the city, military or not. After taking the city, Sherman headed south toward Savannah, beginning his Sherman’s March To The Sea. -
Freeman's Bureau
Freeman's BureauIn March 1865 the U.S. Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to aid African Americans undergoing the transition from slavery to freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War (1861-65). The Freedmen's Bureau, as it was more commonly known, was the first organization of its kind, a federal agency established solely for the purpose of social welfare. Under the direction of Major General Oliver O. Howard, the agency furnished rations to refugees and freedpeople. -
Thirteenth Amendment
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Ku Klux Klan FormedFrom 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65). They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era. -
Fourteenth Amendment
14th AmendmentThe Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by Southern states, which were forced to ratify it in order for them to regain representation in Congress. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Fifteenth AmendmentThe Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments -
Henry Grady
Henry Grady InformationHenry Woodfin Grady was a journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the former Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the South. Henry Grady also called the south, the New South. Because of his agriculture in cotton. -
Booker T Wahsington
Booker T Washington Born a slave on a Virginia farm, Washington (1856-1915) rose to become one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to training teachers. Washington was also behind the formation of the National Negro Business League 20 years later, and he served as an adviser to Presidents -
International Cotton
<ahref='http://http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cotton-expositions-atlanta' >International Cotton Exposition</a>In the late nineteenth century, fairs and expositions were an important way for cities to attract
This engraving shows the 1887 Piedmont Exposition's main building. Located in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, the structure was 570 feet long, 126 feet wide, and two stories high. The Exposition opened on October 10 to nearly 20,000 visitors. -
Tom Watson Populists
Tom WatsonIn 1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party. Led by the brilliant orator Thomas E. Watson this new party mainly appealed to white farmers, many of whom had been impoverished by debt and low cotton prices in the 1880s and 1890s. Populism, which directly challenged the dominance of the Democratic Party, threatened to split the white vote in Georgia. Consequently, the Populists boldly tried to win black Republicans to their cause -
International Cotton Expo
International Cotton Exposition InformationThe 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition was held at the current Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Nearly 800,000 visitors attended the event. The exposition was designed to promote the region to the world and showcase products and new technologies as well as to encourage trade with Latin America. The Cotton States and International Exposition featured exhibits from several states including various innovations in agriculture and technology. -
John & Lugenia Hope
John & Lugenia HopeJohn Hope
John and Lugenia Burns Hope, pictured with their sons, John and Edward, were leaders in Atlanta's black community during the early 1900s. John Hope served as president of both Morehouse College and Atlanta University, and Lugenia Burns Hope founded Atlanta's Neighborhood Union.
Hope Family
was an important African American educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. In 1906 he became the first black president of Morehouse College—the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr.—i -
WEB DuBois
WEB DuBoisWilliam Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois (1868-1963) was was a leading African-American sociologist, writer and activist. Educated at Harvard University and other top schools, Du Bois studied with some of the most important social thinkers of his time. He earned fame for the publication of such works as Souls of Black Folk (1903), and was a founding officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and editor of its magazine. Dubois also taught at Wilberforce U -
Atlanta Riot
Atlanta RiotDuring the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbreak of mob violence -
Leo Frank Case
href='http://http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case' >Leo Case</a>The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. Before the lynching of Frank two years later, the case became known throughout the nation. -
World War 1
World War 1 InformationThe US policy wanted to stay nuetrality. World War 1 was also called the great war. The allied powers were Great Briatan, France, and Russia. The central powers were Germany, Austia Hungary, and Ohoman Empire. The causes of the war were the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and competation for land. The supplies for the war were victory gardens, peach pits, poise gas, gun, railroads, textile milk, and sewing circles. World War 1 lsted for 4 years. -
County Unit System
County Unit SystemThe county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act. This act formalized what had operated as an informal system, instituted in Georgia in 1898, of allotting votes by county in party primary elections. The county unit system continued to be used in Democratic primaries for statewide office and selected U.S. House districts until the early 1960s -
Eugene Talmage
Eugene TalmadgeA 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 and three terms as governor, his personality and actions polarized voters into Talmadge and anti-Talmadge factions in the state's one-party politics of that era. He was elected to a fourth term as the state's chief executive in 1946 but died before taking office. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young InformationAndrew 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. -
Carl Vinson
Carl VinsonCarl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. When he retired in January 1965, he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. He also set the record for service as chair of a standing committee. -
Holocaust
HolocaustThe Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
Agricultural Adj Act
Agricultural Adjustment ActThe Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops -
civilian conservation corps
Civilian Conservation CorpsAmong 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, the corps's objective was to recruit unemployed young men (and later, out-of-work veterans) for forestry, erosion control, flood prevention, and parks development. -
Great Depression
Great Depression The Great Depression (also known as the Great Slump) was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in some countries as early as 1928. The beginning of the Great Depression in the United States is associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. -
Rural Electrification
REAAlthough 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. -
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World War II
World War 2 InformationWWII conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths resulted from WWII. -
Benjamin Mays
A distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist, Benjamin Mays is perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. 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 -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities. One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later. Hamilton Earl "Hamp" Holmes was born July 8, 1941, in Atlanta. His father, Alfred "Tup" Holmes, was an Atlanta businessman, and his mother, Isabella, was a schoolteacher. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor InformationAs it stated from the wedsite that, Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, colour, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability;[1][2][3] and individual rights such as privacy, the freedoms of thought and conscience, speech and expression, religion, the press, assembly and movement. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941 -
1946 Governor's Race
Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, was one of the more bizarre political spectacles in the annals of American politics. In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947.The General Assembly elected Talmadge's son as governor. -
Civil Rights
Civil Rights InformationAs the welbsitetate stated, Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals, and which ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.They comprise the first portion of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Huma -
Atlanta Hawks
Atlanta Hawks InformationThe Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They play their home games at Philips Arena in Downtown Atlanta.Their origins can be traced to the establishment of the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in 1946, a member of the National Basketball League. In 1949, they joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) as part of the National Basketball Leagu -
Brown v Board of Edu
On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v FergusonHomer Plessy was jailed for sitting in a railroad car designated for whites only. Plessy was in fact seven-eighths white and one-eighth black which by Louisiana law meant he was treated as an African-American and required to sit in the car designated for "colored" patrons. When Plessy lost his initial court case, his appeal made it to the US Supreme Court. The Court ruled 7-1 that the Louisi -
Richard B Russell
Richard B RussellRichard B. Russell Jr. served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. Although Russell was best known for his efforts to strengthen the national defense and to oppose civil rights legislation, he favored his role as advocate for the small farmer and for soil and water conservation. Russell also worked to bring economic opportunities to Georgia. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia 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. Talmadge, a Democrat, was governor at a time of political transition in the state, and he served in the Senate during a time of great political change in the nation as well. -
Sibley Commission
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Reporters gather at Atlanta's city hall on August 30, 1961, the day that the city's schools were officially integrated. The recommendations of the Sibley Commission to the state legislature in 1960 contributed to the desegregation of schools across Georgia.
Integration of Atlanta Schools
1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them, tapped state representative George Busbee to introduce legislation crea -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Student Non-Violent coordinating committeeThe Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches. In the wake of the early sit-ins at lunch counters closed to blacks, which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. -
The Albany Movement
According to traditional accounts the Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties -
Ivan Allen JR
Ivan Allen JRIvan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. While other southern cities experienced recurring violence, Atlanta leaders, led in part by Mayor Allen, were able to broker more peaceful paths to integration -
march on washington
In August 1963 the civil rights movement staged its largest gathering ever, with as many as 250,000 participants at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington, D.C.On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued -
Atlanta Falcons
Atlanta Falcons InformationThe Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965[1] as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League (AFL). -
Civil Right Act
The civil rights movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality. From Atlanta to the most rural counties -
Lester Maddox
The tumultuous political and social change in Georgia during the 1960s yielded perhaps the state's most unlikely governor, Lester Maddox. Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, Maddox surprised many by serving as an able and unquestionably colorful chief executive. Early Years Born in Atlanta to a working-class family on September 30, 1915, Lester Garfield Maddox grew up knowing poverty. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King jr. InfromtionMartin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term, 1977-81. His previous public service included a stint in the U.S. Navy, two senate terms in the Georgia General Assembly, and one term as governor of Georgia (1971-75) -
Maynard Jackson
Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990, following the mayorship of Andrew Young. -
1996 Olympic Games
Information 1996 Olympic GamesThe 1996 Summer Olympics known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially as the Centennial Olympics, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from July 19 to August 4, 1996. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994. -
Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Braves InformationIt states that the Atlanta Braves are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team in Atlanta, Georgia, playing in the Eastern Division of the National League. The Braves have played home games at Turner Field since 1997 and play spring training games in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In 2017, the team is to move to SunTrust Park, a new stadium complex in the Cumberland district of Cobb County just north of the I-285 bypass. -
1956 State Flag
1956 State Flag InformationFrom the text it states that The current flag of the State of Georgia was adopted on May 8, 2003. The flag bears three stripes consisting of red-white-red, and a blue canton containing a ring of 13 white stars encompassing the state's coat of arms in gold. In the coat of arms, the arch symbolizes the state's constitution and the pillars represent the three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial.
