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Henry Grady
Henry Grady was the "Spokesman of the New South," served as managing editor for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s. -
Tom Watson and The Populist Party
In 1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party. Led by the brilliant orator Thomas E. Watson this party mainly appealed to white farmers, many of whom had been impoverished by debt and low cotton prices in the 1880s and 1890s. -
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International Cotton Exposition
Atlanta's leaders hosted a series of three "cotton expositions" that were important to the city's and economic recovery. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to the presidents of the United States. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. -
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 -
Alonzo Herndon
An African American barber and entrepreneur, Herndon was the founder and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, one of the most successful black-owned insurance business in the nation. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
During the Atlanta Race Riot that occurred September 22-24 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. -
WEB DuBois
WEB DuBois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. -
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World War 1
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. -
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. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System was established in 1917 when Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic party, passed the Neill Primary Act. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. Ghettos were set up by the Nazi regime to segregate the Jews. By mid-1942, victims were being deported from the ghettos in sealed freight trains to extermination camps. If they survived the journey on the trains, they were killed in gas chambers . The killing continued until the end of World War II in Europe. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. Originally for young men ages 18–25, it was eventually expanded to ages 17–28. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 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. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell was an American politician from Georgia. He was a Democrat and served as the Governor of Georgia before serving in the United States senate for almost 40 years. Russell was a founder and leader of the conservative coalition that dominated Congress for 26 years from 1937-1963. When he died he was the most senior member of the Senate. For decades he was a leader of Southern opposition to the civil rights movement. -
Eugene Talmadge
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, his personality and actions polarized voters into Talmadge and anti-Talmadge factions in the state's one-party politics of that era. He was elected to a fourth term as the state's chief executive in 1946 but died before taking office. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a U.S. Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and served more than 50 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the longest serving member of the House from Georgia. He along with Senator Park Trammell of Florida helped push the Vinson–Trammell Act. The bill authorized the replacement of obsolete vessels by new construction and a gradual increase of ships within the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Naval Treaty of 1930. -
Social Security Act
On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established several systems. The systems that were put in place were old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent children and mothers, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
Rural
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 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. -
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World War 2
World War II also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from September 1,1939 to September 2, 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries were involved in this conflict. The Allies and the Axis were the two opposing military alliances that were formed during this war. The Axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allies were France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. -
Lend-Lease Act
The lend-lease policy put into effect March 11, 1941 was a program the United States put into place to supply France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and material. The policy was signed into law and ended overnight without prior warning when the war against Japan ended. This aid was free for all countries, although when the program ended the goods in transit were charged to the countries they were being delivered to. -
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, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor led to the United States' entry into World War II. There was 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. The following day, December 8, 1941 the United States declared war on Japan.
