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1956 State Flag
There were several newspaper reports of secession flags consisting of a single star on a solid background. Georgia had lead the nation in the number and a variety of different state flags. -
William B. Hartsfield
William Harstfield served as mayor for six terms, he had severed longer than any other person in the city's history. Hartsfield was also responsible for fostering Atlanta's image as "the city too busy to hate." -
Benjamin Mays
May's education in Chicago was interrupted several times. In 1940 Mays became president in college. -
Atlanta Hawks
The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta. -
Herman Talmadge
The younger Talmadge had been a write in candidate and was one of three competitors serving briefly as the 70th Governor of Georgia before yielding to a court decision in favor of the elected lieutenant governor. Herman was an attorney and a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia, the son of former governor Eugene Talmadge. -
1946 Governor's Race
Eugene won election to a fourth term as Georgia’s governor in 1946, but he had died before his inauguration. Melvin Thompson had been elected to created office of lieutenant governor, and he had became governor -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown vs the Board of Education became one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century. A large amount of the United States had racial segregation of children in public schools. -
Sibley Commission
The Sibley Commission was created to let the public make their decisions about public school. This all had took place in Atlanta Georgia. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Only whites could sit the lunch counter no colored. A lot of colored people had took turns sitting at the counter, but they never got served. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton and Charlayne became the first two African American students to go to the University. The African Americans in the South definitely was placed at a lower status than most whites, but the reason for this is that the whites have kept them at this low level. -
The Albany Movement
A lot of blacks had protested and they all got arrested in one week including himself. They had over 1,000 African Americans in jailing for protesting. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
Allen took the helm of the Ivan Allen Company, his father's office supply business.He became President of the city Chamber of Commerce in 1961 and during this same year ran for mayor. -
March on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Randolph called for a March on Washington by fifty thousand people. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. Congress provided for court-appointed referees to help blacks register to vote -
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Falcons played their home games at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta. -
Lester Maddox
Maddox surprised many by serving as an able, though unquestionably colorful, chief executive. In 1947 Maddox opened his most enduring and successful enterprise, the Pickrick Cafeteria. -
Atlanta Braves
The "Braves" name, which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for a Native American warrior. The braves nickname is Bravos. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King had changed his first name from Micheal to Martin. A distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman. Young graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in biology. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayer
Jackson was an American politician and attorney from Georgia, a member of the Democratic Party, and elected in 1973 The first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city -
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1996 Olympic Games
The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year. -
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Jimmy Carter in Georgia
The farm where Jimmy lived from age four in 1928 until he left for college he always worked on the farm.
