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Tom Watson and the Populists
Tom Watson was born on September 5, 1856 and died suddenly while serving his second year of his 6 year term of U.S. Senate on September 26, 1922. He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1882, the U.S. house of representatives in 1890, and the U.S. Senate in 1920. -
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International Cotton Exposition
The International Cotton Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1881. The location was along the Western and Atlantic railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University. -
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 under the doctrine of "Separate but equal." -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon was 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. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlantic Riot of 1906 was a racist pogrom in Atlanta, Georgia which began on September 22, 1906 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized by many media outlets as a "Racial Massacre of Negroes." -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge lived from 1884 to 1946. He was a controversial and colorful politician, Eugene Talmadge played a leading role in the state's politics from 1926 to 1946. During his three terms as state commissioner of agriculture and three terms as governor. He was elected to a fourth term as the state's chief executive in 1946 but died before taking office. -
John and Lugenia Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. John Hope was an important African American Educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. -
WEB DuBois
WEB DuBois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank Case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a 13 year old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. -
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World War I
In late June of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. An escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leading by mid-August to the outbreak of World War I. World War I ended in the defeat of the Central Powers in November 1918, more than 9 million soldiers had been killed and 21 million more wounded. -
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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. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting 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 -
Civilian Conservation Corps
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. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultral Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. -
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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 including 1.5 million children and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe. Also includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to about 11 million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany, German-occupied territories and territories held by allies of Nazi Germany. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell was an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he briefly served as speaker of the Georgia house, and as Governor of Georgia before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 until his death from emphysema in Washington, D.C. in 1971. -
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. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Georgia. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1935. The new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement. -
Rural Electrification
Rural Electrification provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies, most of which still exist today. -
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World War II
World War II was a global war that lasted for 6 years, although related conflicts began earlier. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory.
