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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. Georgia also suffered from the effects of the influenza pandemic, a tragic maritime disaster, local political fights, and wartime homefront restrictions. -
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county unit system
The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act. -
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world war 2
Southern states were critical to the war effort during World War II (1941-45) and none more so than Georgia. -
Pearl harbor
the attack commenced at 7:55 AM and it lasted approximately 110 minutes The Japanese attacked the United States without warning. -
1906 atlanta riot
white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. -
tom watson and the populists
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international cotton exposition
Atlanta was growing very fast and they started the cotton exposition the frst ever was held in Oglethorpe park in 1881 -
Leo Frank Case
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Plessy v. furguson
Under Jim Crow, black Georgians suffered from a system of discrimination that pervaded nearly every aspect of life; they were denied their constitutional right to vote, encountered discrimination in housing and employment, and were refused access to public spaces and facilities. -
booker t. wasington
Booker T. Washington, a black educator and spokesman, gave a speech later known as the "Atlanta Compromise" at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. In the speech, Washington condoned social segregation of the races, provided that educational and economic opportunities were equal. -
WEB DuBois
Du Bois's life and work in Georgia improved the lives of blacks in the state and across the country while educating all races about the contributions of African Americans to American society. -
alonzo herndon
Alonzo was the founder and president of atlanta life insurance company,one of the most successful black owned insurance buisnesses in the nation. -
John and lugenia hope
In 1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,lugenia met john hope, a student at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.John Hope
John and Lugenia Burns Hope, pictured with their sons, John and Edward, were leaders in Atlanta's black community during the early 1900s. John Hope served as president of both Morehouse College and Atlanta University, and Lugenia Burns Hope founded Atlanta's Neighborhood Union. -
social security act
