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the Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta Falcons is a football team based in Atlanta Georgia.
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The Atlanta Braves is a baseball team based in Atlanta Georgia
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Jimmy 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. After being defeated in the presidential election of 1980, he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta.
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an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. His district includes three-quarters of Atlanta.
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Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration. To fill the vacancy, Eugene's son, Herman, was appointed by the state Legislature.
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision effectively overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896,
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The Georgia state flag that was used from 1956 to 2001 featured a prominent Confederate battle flag and was designed by Southern Democrat John Sammons Bell, a World War II veteran and an attorney who was an outspoken supporter of segregation. -
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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.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.
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Albany and surrounding rural counties. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961 when hundreds of black protesters, including himself, were arrested in one week,
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on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. At the march, Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism
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is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States[5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender or national origin.
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was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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William B. Hartsfield was a man who became one of the best mayors of Atlanta.
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was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the African-American civil rights movement.
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Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating the University of Georgia.
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was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. A record 197 nations, all current IOC member nations, took part in the Games, fielding a total of 10,318 athletes.
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In 1956 Herman Talmadge was elected to the first of four terms in the U.S. Senate
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Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city.
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was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
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Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta.credited with leading the city through significant physical and economic growth with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement.
