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1906 Alanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia (United States), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes". -
International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) 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 development in the West Midtown area. -
Tom Watson and the Populists
The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing and controversial among Georgia politicians. In his early years he was characterized as a liberal, especially for his time. In later years he emerged as a force for white supremacy and anti-Catholic rhetoric. He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the U.S. Senate (1920), where he served for only a short time before his death. -
World War 1
Georgia played a significant role during America's participation in World War I (1917-18). The state was home to more training camps than any other state and, by the war's end, it had contributed more than 100,000 men and women to the war effort. -
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 thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. -
County Unit System
This act formalized what had operated as an informal system, instituted in Georgia in 1898, of allotting votes by county in party primary elections. (A primary election is held before a general election in order to determine each political party's candidates for the general election.) -
Booker T. Washington
African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington delivered what is widely regarded as one of the most significant speeches in American history, the "Atlanta Compromise" speech, in 1895. -
John and Lugenia Hope
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, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure. -
Alonzo Herndon
Admired and respected by many, he was noted for his involvement in and support of local institutions and charities devoted to advancing African American business and community life. -
Great Depression
Much of the nation was enjoying a manufacturing and production boom in the 1920s, but a combination of overproduction, foreign competition, and new man-made fabrics, such as rayon, led to falling cotton prices in Georgia. By the mid-1920s, the effects of the boll weevil, which first arrived in 1915, had ravaged Georgia's cotton fields and further decreased small farmers' prospects for making a living. -
Eugene Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia
Herman Talmadge, son of Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge, took the governor's office briefly in 1947, and again after a special election in 1948.
Herman Talmadge
for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980 -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A sign, pictured in 1943, indicates separate facilities for black customers at a bus station in Rome. Segregation of blacks and whites became a common occurence in the South with the rise of Jim Crow laws in the 1890s. -
Web DuBois
Nominees for Georgia Women of Achievement must meet the criteria established by a board of selections that includes historians, teachers, and leaders in the field of Georgia history. Nominees must have been deceased for at least ten years, and they must also be native to or clearly identified with Georgia, have made exceptional contributions, and possess a life story that inspires others to make use of their own talents.
