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Tom Watson and the Populists
Tom Watson was a practicing lawyer, publisher, and historian. He is remembered for being a voice for Populism and the disenfranchised. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor of presidents for the United States. Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. He was one of the founders of the National Negro Business League. -
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International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center also known in the West Midtown area. -
Alonzo Herndon
An 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. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a racist pogrom in Atlanta, Georgia. Which it began the event of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. -
John and Lugenia Hope
John Hope served as president of both Morehouse College and Atlanta University, and Lugenia Burns Hope founded Atlanta's Neighborhood Union. Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-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. -
WEB DuBois
He was an African American educator, historian, sociologist, and social activist who poignantly addressed the issues of racial discrimination. In Georgia, Du Bois wrote some of his best-known works, including The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, and Black Reconstruction, and established a journal dealing with the African American experience called Phylon. -
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World War I
World War I, was known as the First World War and or the Great War it was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962. Under the County Unit System, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Richard Russell
Richard B. Russell Sr. was elected chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1922.His father was a prosperous middle-class textile manufacturer who lost all of his possessions in the Civil War. -
Carl Vinson
Carl 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. -
Eugene Talmadge
A controversial and colorful politician, Eugene Talmadge played a leading role in the state's politics from 1926 to 1946. He was elected to a fourth term as the state's chief executive in 1946 but died before taking office. -
Rural Electrification
The Rural Electrification Act of 1936, enacted on May 20, 1936, provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems.It provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. -
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World War II
World War II also known as the Second World War and was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, the plan originated by Adolf Hitler's Nazis Germany, and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. The victims included 1.5 million children and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe. From 1941 to 1945, Jews were systematically murdered in the deadliest genocide in history -
Civilan Conservation Crops
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. -
Leo Frank Case
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. The night watchman, another early suspect in the case, told police that Frank called later in the day to see if everything was all right, which he had never done before. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities. The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act was signed into law by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. The law was one of Roosevelt's major New Deal initiatives during the Great Depression. Best known today for providing retirement benefits to most workers.
