Timeline Checkpoint #4

  • Electrification

    Electrification

    Process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas.
  • Atlanta Braves

    Atlanta Braves

    Major league Baseball from Boston Massachusetts then was moved to become Milwaukee Braves.
  • John Lewis

    John Lewis

    American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation.
  • Richard Russell

    Richard Russell

    Richard Russell was a America politician and was the United states senator .
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    Holocaust

    A destruction duringworld war II .
  • Carl Vinson

    Carl Vinson

    A United states Representative and he was also a Democrat .
  • Social Security

    Social Security

    U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors benefits
  • William B. Hartsfield

    William B. Hartsfield

    One of the greatest mayors , and was a America politician .
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    World War II

    second war that was global .
  • Benjamin Mays

    Benjamin Mays

    A American Baptist minister and civil rights leader .
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Military strikes japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor .
  • Atlanta Hawks

    Atlanta Hawks

    National Basketball Association and was the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division.
  • 1946 Govenor's Race

    1946 Govenor's Race

    Three Governor's that was appointed by the state Legislature.
  • Herman Talmadge

    Herman Talmadge

    A Attorney and a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia .
  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Brown V. Board of Education

    United States Supreme Court case that declared sate laws .
  • 1956 State Flag

    1956 State Flag

    A World War II veteran and an attorney who was an supporter of segregation.
  • Sibley Commission

    Sibley Commission

    A committee was charged with gathering state residents sentiments regarding desegregation .
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    Major Civil Rights Movement organizations and moved out of a student sit-in .
  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

    Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

    American orthopedic physician and was the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
  • Ivan Allen Jr.

    Ivan Allen Jr.

    America businessman that was the Mayor of Atlanta .
  • Atlanta Falcons

    Atlanta Falcons

    41 year old Rankin Smith Executive Vice President .
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    American Baptist minister that was spokesperson and leader in the civil rights .