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Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves, a current Major League Baseball franchise, originated in Boston, Massachusetts. This article details the history of the Boston Braves, from 1871 to 1952, after which they moved to Milwaukee to become the Milwaukee Braves, and then eventually to Atlanta, to become the Atlanta Braves. -
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Jimmy Carter in Georgia
James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium (now the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center) in Plains, Georgia, a hospital where his mother was employed as a registered nurse. ... Numerous generations of Carters lived as cotton farmers in Georgia. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King, a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
William B. Hartsfield
- William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta. He served as mayor for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's.
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Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the African-American civil rights movement. ... Mays was born in the Jim Crow South on a repurposed cotton plantation to freed sharecroppers. -
1946 Governor's Race
It was one of the most bizarre political episodes in American history. For a brief period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 – March 21, 2002) was an attorney and a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia, the son of former governor Eugene Talmadge. ... Talmadge was elected as governor in a special election in 1948, and elected again to a full term in 1950, serving into 1955. -
Atlanta Hawks
Atlanta hawks Logo Timeline. Atlanta Hawks History. Season By Season Recaps Results of every game in the history of the Atlanta Hawks. It's Gotta Be the Shoes A look back at some of the ... From 'Pistol' to the 'Plastic Man' the Hawks have had plenty of memorable nicknames. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), 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. -
1956 States Flag
The 1956 flag was adopted in an era when the Georgia General Assembly "was entirely devoted to passing legislation that would preserve segregation and white supremacy", according to a 2000 research report by the Georgia Senate. -
Sibley Commission
Sibley Commission. 1960 Georgia 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 creating the General Assembly Committee on Schools. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /snick/ SINK) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at an April 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University. -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement (1961–1962) The Albany Movement was a desegregation campaign formed on November 17, 1961, in Albany, Georgia. ... The Albany Movement challenged all forms of racial segregation and discrimination in the city. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan 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. -
March on Washington
Officially called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the historic gathering took place on August 28, 1963. Some 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and more than 3,000 members of the press covered the event. -
1964 Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
John Lewis
Lewis draws on his historical involvement in the Civil Rights Movement as part of his politics. He "makes an annual pilgrimage to Alabama to retrace the route he marched in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery – a route Lewis has since had declared part of the Historic National Trails program. -
Atlanta Falcons
The NFL announced more key dates of its 2018 offseason and Atlanta's offseason program begins on April 16. The program is voluntary and Falcons players are not required to show up until mandatory minicamp, but the Falcons have had full participation the past three years. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox. ... A populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act. He later served as Lieutenant Governor during the time that Jimmy Carter was Governor. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 13, 1932) is 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 (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
In 1970, Maynard Jackson became Atlanta's first Black Vice-Mayor, his first elected position which he held for four years. ... As mayor, he celebrated in September 1990 when Atlanta was selected as the host city for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the students who desegregated ... in 1961, returned in 1992 to speak at the first annual Holmes-Hunter lecture. -
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1996 Olympic Games
The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
