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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an American educator author orator and adviser to presiednt of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915 Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community. -
Alonzo Herndo
Born into slavery he was the son of his white master Frank Herndo and an enslaved woman Sophie. In 1878 Herndo left social circle on foot with only 11 dollars of savings and only approximately went Senio G.A to work as a farmland and learned the barbering trade. -
Tom Watson and the Populist
Tom WAtson was an american politian attorney newspaper editor and writer from Georgia. In the 1890 watson champion poor farmers as a leader of the populist party. -
Electrification
Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and is usually associated with changing over from another power source. -
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International Cotton Exposition
International cotton exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta Georgia from Oct 5 to Dec 31. The location was along the western and Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present day king plow art center development in the west midtown area. -
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Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was born in 1884 in Forsyth Georgia to Thomas and Carrie Talmadge. He went to the University of Georgia and graduated from the university's law school. -
WEB DuBois
william E. Burghardt was an american sociologist historian civil rights activities an author and an editor. Born in Great Barrington Massachusetts du Bois grew in in a relative tolerant and integrated community. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy V. Ferguson was a landmark constitututional law case of the U.S supreme court. It upheld state racial segregtion laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal. The decidion was handed down by vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opiion written by justice Henry Billings Brown and the dissent written by justice John Marshall Harlan. -
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1906 Atlanta Riot
The atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil distance in Atlanta Georgia which began the evening of sept 22 and busted until sept 24. It was characterized at the time by le Petit journal and other media outlets as a racial massacter of negros. -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorius and highly piblcized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in atlanta was placed on trial and convinced 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 throgh the nation. -
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World War 1
World War 1 also know as the first world war or the great war was a global war originating in Europe that lasted 1914 to 1918. more than 70 million military personnel including 60 million Europeans were mobleised in one of the largest wars in history. -
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Country Unit System
the Country Unit system was a voting system used by thr U.S state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 to 1962. the system was ostensibly designed to function similary to the electoral College but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influince to the smaller counties. -
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Great Depresion
The Great Depresion was a severe worldwide economic depresion that took place during the 1930. The timing of the great depresion varied across nations however in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until 1930. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
An act to releive the existing national economics emergency by increasing agriculture purchasing power to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency to provide emergency releif. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell was an american politician from Georgai. A member of the Democratic party he briefly served as a speaker of the house of Georgia. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and served for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. -
Civilian Conversation Corps
The Civilian Conversation Corps was a public work relief programs that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployment unmarried men from relief families as apart of the new deal. Originally for young men ages 18-25 it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17-28. -
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World War ll
WWll also known as the second world war was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the word's nation's including all of the great power's eventually forming two opposing military alliances. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.This represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of OAahu. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of japan on Dec 7, 1941 was the immediate cause of the united states entering into WWll. -
Social Security
Social security is a concept enshrined in Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Everyone as a member of society has the right to social security and is entitled to realization through national effort and international cooperation. -
John and Lugenia Hope
Lugenia Hope was an early twenieth century social activist reformer and community organizer. spending most of her career in Atlanta she worked for the improvement of black communities through traditional social work community health campaigns and political pressure for better education and infrastucture. -
Rural
A rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.
