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International Cotton Exposition
The International Cotton Exposition was Atlanta's first exposition and was held in Oglethorpe Park in 1881. The city had less than forty-thousand residents and was only referred to as "international" because there was a display of cotton plants from all around the world. -
Tom Watson and the Populists
Thomas E. Watson was a lawyer, publisher, historian, and politician. He was nominated by the Populist Party as its vice presidential candidate in 1896. He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was born a slave on a small farm in western Virginia. He was one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the 19th century. He founded the Tuskegee institute and was behind the formation of the National Negro Business League and he served as an adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the U.S Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal. By a 7-1 vote the Court said that a state law that implies merely a legal distinction between the two races did not conflict with the 13th amendment. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon was a barber, entrepreneur, and founder and owner of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. he was noted for his involvement in and support of local institutions and charities devoted to advancing African American business and community life. At the time of his death he was Atlanta's wealthiest black citizen. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 was the first race riot to take place in the capital of Georgia. During the Atlanta race riot white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded lots of them, and inflicted considerable property damage. There were many causes for the outbreak of the mob violence but one thing that got most people mad was local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females. -
John and Lugenia Hope
John Hope was an African American educator, race leader, first black president of Morehouse College, and first African American president of Atlanta University. He was involved in many civil rights organizations and social service organizations. Lugenia Hope was a social activist, reformer, and community organizer. She worked for the improvement of black communities through social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure. -
Web DuBois
Web DuBois was an sociologist, writer, activist, founding officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, editor of "Crisis"(magazine), and taught at Wilberforce university and Atlanta University. He wanted the Peace Information Center to comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act but they rejected him and he had to go to jail, although he was freed he was shunned by colleagues and harassed by federal agencies because of the alleged communist association. -
Leo Frank Case
Leo Frank was a Jewish man who was convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl, Mary Phagan, who worked for him. Some of the people from Mary's hometown, Marietta, got him from his cell in Milledgeville and took him to Marietta where they hung him from an oak tree. Frank's innocence was proven when eighty-three-year-old Alonzo Mann testified he saw Jim Conley taking Mary Phagan's body to the basement on the day of the murder. -
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World War 1
World War 1 was one the largest wars in history between the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire) and the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan). The U.S joined the war after three years in 1917. The cause of the war was the assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System was a voting system used to determine the winner in statewide primary elections. The CUS was abolished because it was unfair, it did not give everyone's vote value. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great Depression started after the stock market crash of October 1929. The countries that were hit the hardest were Germany and Great Britain. The Great Depression ended because of World War 2 which provided many jobs in the military for the citizens. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was a state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazis. The Holocaust ended when Russian, British, and American troops invaded Poland and Germany in the final stages of World War 1. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through robust, disciplined outdoor labor. Corpsmen planted millions of trees, dug canals and ditches, built over thirty thousand wildlife shelters, stocked rivers and lakes with almost a billion fish, restored historic battlefields, and cleared beaches and campgrounds. The CCC did not give blacks a fair amount of work. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a federal law passed in 1933 as a part of president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops so crop prices would increase. The AAA was shut down because they were taxing the processors to pay the farmers. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S senator. He was best known for his efforts to strengthen the national defense and to oppose civil rights legislation. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson a.k.a. "the father of the two-ocean navy" served twenty-five consecutive terms in the House of Representatives. He chaired the House Naval Affairs Committee for sixteen years and the House Armed Services Committee for fourteen years. He got the nickname "the Admiral" for his strong support of the navy. -
Eugene Talmadge
He was a controversial and colorful politician. He served three terms as state commissioner of agriculture and three terms as governor. During his time in office because of his actions and his personality there were two groups of people Talmadge and anti-Talmadge. He was elected to a fourth term as the state's chief executive but died before taking office. -
Rural Electrification Act
The Rural Electrification Act was a law by the U.S congress as a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The law allowed the federal government to make low-cost loans to farmers for the purpose of forming rural electrical cooperatives. -
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World War 2
World War 2 started when Germany invaded Poland which led France and Britain to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state. The U.S got involved in the war when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. World War 2 ended when the Axis powers surrendered. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a Japanese attack on an American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese destroyed twenty American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships and more than 300 airplanes. More than two-thousand American soldiers and sailors died in the attack and one-thousand were wounded. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act was an act created to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits. The SSA was created by the President's Committee on Economic Security and passed by Congress as a part of the second New Deal.
