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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
8,000 BC to 1,000 BC During this time period the weather grew warmer and large game animals became extinct. The extinctions caused the Paleo Indians to begin hunting smaller animals like deer and turkey. The main weapon they used for hunting was a spear. The Paleo's grew plants in the Archaic time period. -
Jan 1, 1000
Wood Land
1,00 BC to 1,000 AD. During this period, several hundred families banded together to form tribes. The most popular tool the Wood Land tribe used was the bow and arrow. This tool helped the indians make hunting easier. Arrows had points that were made from shark teeth, deer antlers, and stone. -
Oct 1, 1000
Paleo
11,000-8,000BC. The Paleo Indians were the earliest culture in Georgia.The Paleo Indian time period was also known as the stone age because most of their tools were made of stone.The most famous stone tool was the Atlatl and it was used to throw darts.You can remember the spelling of the tool by remembering Georgia's capital, Atlanta is abbreviated Atl. -
May 21, 1542
Hernando De Soto
1500-1542. Hernando De Soto was a Spanish explore and conquistador. Hernando participated in the conquest or Central America and Peru. Hernando was also the person who discovered the Mississippi river. Hernando De Soto died of fever on may 21, 1542. In Hernandos will he named Luis de Moscoso Alvardo the new leader of the expedition. 1500-1542 c. -
Mississippian
800 to 1600 A.D Mississippians were horticulturallists. The Mississippians grew most of their food in small gardens by using tools such as soon axes, digging sticks, and fire. They also ate wild plants and animals. Unlike contemporary people, Mississippians spent much of their lives outdoors. -
Georgia Founded
1730-1733 The founder of Georgia was a man named James Edward Orgiethorpe. James was born on June 30,1696. He was a British general, a parliament member, and a philanthropist. James hoped in the new world he could resettle Britians poor, especially those in debtors prisons. -
Charter of 1732
1732-1752 The first 20 years Georgia history are are referred to as Trustee Georgia. The reason it is called that is because during that time a board of trustees governed the colony. England's King George signed a charter establishing the colony and creating its governing board on April 21,1732. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Georgia Salzburgers were a group of German -speaking Protestant colonists. The Salzburgers
founded the town of Ebenezer in what is how Effingham County. In 1734 the group arriving received support from king George 11 of England and the Georgia Trustees after they were kicked out of their homes in present day Austria. The Salzburgers survived extreme conditions in both Europe and Georgia to establish a prosperous and culturally unique community. 1733-1775 -
Highland scots arrive
Oglethorpe found highlanders from Scotland who wanted to settle in Georgia so they could have their own land and make good lives for themselves. Highlanders were great fighters so it was hoped they could help protect Georgia from Spanish attacks. The scots settled in Darien, Georgia and built a fort there. They were able to cut timber, raise cows, and cut a new road from Darien to Savannah. -
John Reynolds
Little is known about Reynolds early life except that he was born in England around 1713, and volunteered for the British Navy at 15. His naval career took Reynolds to a variety of English ports, including America. Reynolds served as Georgia's first royal governor from 1754 to 1757. -
Henry Ellis
1721-1806 Henry Ellis was an explorer, author, and a colonial governor of Georgia after John Reynolds. Ellis has been called Georgia's second founder. Ellis helped divide Georgia into eight parishes. He also made peace, and allies, with the Creek Indians. He taught Georgians how to rule themselves while he was their govenor. -
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Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant events in the post revolutionary war history of Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the state's public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia's politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. Starting in 1765, member of American colonial society rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them without representatives in the government. During the following decade, protests by the colonists continued to escalate, as in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Battles were fought between the British and colonials until 1783 when a treaty was signed seperating the colonies from British rule. -
University of Georgia founded
The University of Georgia (UGA) is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive educational institution in Georgia. Chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1785, USA was th first university in America to be created by a state government. UGA placed 20th on US News and World Reports 2015 list of nation's top 50 public universities. With four Rhodes Scholars between 1996 and 2003, UGA had more Rhodes Scholars than any state university in America during that time period. -
James Wright
James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia. James served from 1760 to 1782, with a brief interruption during the American Revolution. Wright was a popular administrator and servent of the crown. Wright enforced the Stamp Act, and was arrested during the revolution in Georgia. He fled away to London. Wright returned to Savannah and stayed there as royal governor from 1779 until royal rule ended in 1782. -
Constitution Convention
The constitutional cenvention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, to address problems in governing the United States of America. Severl men met and elected George Washington to lead the convention. THe men at the convention created the Constitution of the United States. The constitution was signed after the second constitutional convention in 1789. -
Georgia ratifies the constitution
The U.S. Constitution has always been contentious. Our sacred charter was born in controversy and remains so to this day. Georiga elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphis in the summer of 1787, Only four went, and only two- Abraham Baldwin and William Few-signed the final document. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin. -
Capital Moved To Louisville
The legislature mandated that the commission select a location within 20 miles of an Indian trading post known as Galphin's Old Town, or Galphinton. The commission was authorized 1,000 acres of land, which would be patterned after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the capital of the United States. The legislature also directed the new capital site be called Louisville in honor of Louis XVI of France, in appreciation for French assistance during the Revolutionary. -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke was an officer of the Georgia militia and a hero in the American Revolutionary war. He fought in the southern theater and the Battle of Kettle Creek. After the war, Clarke was elected to the Georgia legislature. In 1794 he organized the Trans-Oconee Republic, several settlements in counties of Georgia in traditional Creek territory. From there he attacked Creek villages but was restrained the Georgia governor George Matthews. -
Missouri Compromise
An act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government. It was also an act for the admission of such state into the union on an equal footing with the original states also to prohibit slavery in certain territories. -
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Dahlonega Gold Rush
Benjamin Parks was walking through the woods in North Georgia when he kicked a stone and that stone ended up being gold. Thousands of miners swarmed into the mountains in what the Cherokees called the "Great Intrusion" and the Georgia gold rush began. The US government established a branch mint at Dahlonega in 1835 that produced 46 million in gold coins before closing in 1861. The gold rush was one of the major reasons behind the removal of the Cherokee in 1838. -
Austin Dabeny
Austin Dabeny was a slave who became a private in the Georgia militia. Austin Dabeny fought against the British during the Revolutionary War. He was the only African American to be granted land by the State of Georgia. The legislature also provided seventy pounds to emancipate Dabeny from his owner, Richard Aycock. Dabeny continued working for Giles Harris and eventually paid for his son, William Harris, to go to Franklin College. -
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Trail of Tears
The trail of tears was a series of forced relocations of the Native American nations in teh US following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations. The phrase "Trail of Tears" originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831. -
Worcester vs. Georgia
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the US Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee indians constituted a nation and held distinct, soverign powers. In 1827, the Cherokees established a constitutional government. The Cherokee were not only restructuring their government, but also declared that they were a sovereign nation which could not be removed without their consent. -
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Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott case said that blacks were unable to petition for freedom. This decision made abolitionists angry and made relations between the North and South become worse. The case contributed to Abraham Lincoln's election and the beginning of the civil war. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of five seperate bills passed by the US congress in September 1850. The compromise defused a four year political confrontation between slave free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American war (1846-1848) -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia platform warned that the state would, and should, resist any future congressional activity disrupting the interstate slave trade, weakening the fugitive slave laws, or abolishing slavery in the Distruct of Columbia. Such activity could well prompt a dissolution of the Union according to the Georgia Platform. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the US Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of a specific latitude. -
tom watson and the populist
"Tom" Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922) was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party. He was the nominee for vice president with William Jennings Bryan in 1896 on the Populist ticket (but there was a different vice pre -
election of 1860
The Uited Sates presidential election of 1860 was in the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election served as the immediate impeths for the outbreak of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was elected as presadent on November 6' 1860. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The Union blockade ran along the coase of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and all the way up the Mississippi river waterways. This blockade was designed to keep supplies out of the southern states. It also stopped southern staes from earning money by exporting goods to Europe. The Confederacy used small ships that were faster than the northern war ships to get into and out of ports. They also created war ships, called iron clads, that were covered with iron plates. -
Battle of Antietam
The Army of Potomac,under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee's forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17, 1867. The morning assault and vicious confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller's cornfield and the west woods. Later, towards the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunked Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle. -
Emancipation Proclomation
When the American Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln carefully framed the conflicts concerning the preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery. Lincoln wanted the union to stay together. He thought the confederate states would rejoin the union instead of giving up more slaves. The confederate soldiers chose to fight to remain seperate from the union. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Pennsylvania is where the Battle of Gettysburg took place. More men died in this battle than any other battle in the world. George Meade's soldiers defeated Robert E. Lee's army. This battle ended Lee's attempt to invade the north. -
Battle of Chickamauga
During the Battle of Chickamauga General Rosecrans tried to force General Bragg's confederate soldiers out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bragg's soldiers were pusehd back into Georgia but made plans to reenter Chattanooga. On September19th Bragg's men fought against the union near Chickamauga Creek. After getting help from General James Longstreet's Army of Northern Virginia ,he union troops were defeated. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
Officially Andersonville was name Camp Sumter. Camp Sumter held more pridoners at any given time than ano other confederate prison. During the 14 months it existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined there. Of these, almost 13,000 died from poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure to elements. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
Officially Andersonville was name Camp Sumter. Camp Sumter held more pridoners at any given time than ano other confederate prison. During the 14 months it existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined there. Of these, almost 13,000 died from poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure to elements. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
In May of 1864 General Sherman fought the Confederate Army of Tennessee to possess North Georgia, especially Atlanta. Sherman, with help of other generals, was able to cut off Confederate General Johnson from his rail road supplies line. Starting in Dalton, Georgia, General Johnston lost several battles pushing the southeren army back towards Atlanta. The confederates were defeated and Sherman's troops took over Atlanta. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's march to the sea is the name commonly given to the military Savanahh campaign in the American Civil War. The March to the Sea was conducted through Georgia and by Major General William T. Sherman of the Union Army. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His forced destroyed military targets, as well as inustries along his march. -
Freedman's Bureau
In March 1865 the U.S. Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to aid African Americans undergoing the transition from slavery to freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War (1861-65). The Freedmen's Bureau, as it was more commonly known, was the first organization of its kind, a federal agency established solely for the purpose of social welfare. Under the direction of Major General Oliver O. Howard, the agency furnished rations to refugees and freedpeople. -
The 13th Amendment
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution officially ending slavery, was ratified in 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in the Constitution. -
Ku Klux Klan formed
A group of Confederate veterans convened to form a secret society they called the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK rapidly grew a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government's progressive reconstruction era activities in the south. They especially targeted policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population. -
The 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to "all people born or naturalized in the United States", which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying persons "life, liberty or property without due process of law" or to "deny to any person witin its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". The 14th amendment greatly expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans and is cited in more litigation than any other amendment. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
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international cotten exoosition
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. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbreak of the mob violence. -
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. Before the lynching of Frank two years later, the case became known throughout the nation. The degree of anti-Semitism involved in Frank's conviction and subsequent lynching is difficult to assess, but it was enough of a fa -
Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1890, the state of Louisiana passed a law with the name of the Separate Car Act that required separate accommodations for blacks and whites on railroads, including separate railway cars. Concerned, a group of prominent black, creole, and white New Orleans residents formed the Committee of Citizens dedicated to repeal the law or fight its effect.They eventually persuaded Homer Plessy, a man of mixed race, to participate in an orchestrated test case. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. -
WEB DuBois
W.E.B. Du Bois is recognized for his pursuit of social justice, for his literary imagination, and for his pioneering scholarly research. He is read with profit today in the academic fields of sociology, literature, and history, and in the trans-disciplinary realms of urban studies and gender studies. Nevertheless, Du Bois was, and remains still, a contentious figure. -
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. At the time of his death in 1927, he was also Atlanta's wealthiest black citizen, owning more property than any other African American. 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 an -
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. -
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. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbreak of the mob violence. -
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World war 1
World War I , also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war , a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological. -
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry McNeal Turner was a minister, politician, and the first southerm bishop of the Africam Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations after the American Civil War. Born free in South Carolina, Turner learned to read, write and became a Methodist preacher. He joined the SME church in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858 where he became a minister. Later he had pastorates in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. -
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County Unit System
Though the County Unit System had informally been used since 1898, it was formally enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917. The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties. -
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 -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; however, 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. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products. The Act created a new agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administratio -
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holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. Originally for young men ages 18–23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17–28 . Robert Fechner was the head of the agency. -
Social Security
The use of the Social Security number (SSN) has expanded significantly since its inception in 1936. Created merely to keep track of the earnings history of U.S. workers for Social Security entitlement and benefit computation purposes, it has come to be used as a nearly universal identifier. Assigned at birth, the SSN enables government agencies to identify individuals in their records and businesses to track an individual's financial information. This article explores the history and meaning of -
William B. Hartsfield
William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta. He served as mayor for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's history. Hartsfield held office during a critical period when the color line separating the races began to change and the city grew from more than 100,000 inhabitants to a metropolitan population of one million. He is credited with developing Atlanta into the aviation powerhouse -
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world war ll
WWII conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths resulted from WWII. -
carl vinson
Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. When he retired in January 1965, he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. He also set the record for service as chair of a standing committee. -
pearl harbor
As it stated from the website that, Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, colour, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability;[1][2][3] and individual rights such as privacy, the freedoms of thought and conscience, speech and expression, religion, the press, assembly and movement. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941 -
Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Hawks play their home games at Philips Arena. -
1946 Governor's Race
Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of governor-elect Eugene Talmadge was an unusual situration.The General Assembly elected Talmadge's son Herman Talmadge as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office, and the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, refused to leave office. Eventually, the Georgia Supreme Court settled the controversy of the three govenors. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education was the monumental Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. The people who make up this story were ordinary people. They were teachers, secretaries, welders, ministers and students who simply wanted to be treated equally. -
richard russell
Richard B. Russell Jr. served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. Although Russell was best known for his efforts to strengthen the national defense and to oppose civil rights legislation, he favored his role as advocate for the small farmer and for soil and water conservation. Russell also worked to bring economic opportunities to Georgia -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.[1][2] It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young Jr. was an activist for the Civil Rights Movement. He became a member of Congress, mayor of Atlanta and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. -
Sibley Commission
In Reporters gather at Atlanta's city hall on August 30, 1961, the day that the city's schools were officially integrated. The recommendations of the Sibley Commission to the state legislature in 1960 contributed to the desegregation of schools across Georgia.Integration of Atlanta Schools 1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them, tapped state representative George Busbee to introduce legislation cr -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . The organization was led by William G. Anderson, a local black Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. In December 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference became involved in assisting the Albany Movement with protest aginst racial segr. -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League. The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965] as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League. The AFL instead granted a franchise to Miami, Florida. -
Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966, after having originated and played for many decades in Boston and then having subsequently played in Milwaukee for a little more than a decade. The team is a member of the East division of the National League in Major League Baseball. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist,[1] when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act. Later he served as Lieutenant Governor under Jimmy Carter. -
Maynard Jackson Elacted Mayor
Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term, 1977-81. His previous public service included a stint in the U.S. Navy, two senate terms in the Georgia General Assembly, and one term as governor of Georgia. After being defeated in the presidential election of 1980, he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta. -
Benjamin Mays
Perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. He was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. 1894-1984 -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton E. Holmes was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Additionally, Holmes was the first African-American student to attend the Emory University School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1967, later becoming a professor of orthopedics and associate dean at the school. -
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1996 Olympic Games
The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994. The 1996 Summer Games were the first to be staged in a different year from the Winter Games. Atlanta became the sixth American city to host the Olympic Games and the third to hold a Summer Olympic Games. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge served as governor of Georgia 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. Talmadge, a Democrat, was governor at a time of political transition in the state, and he served in the Senate during a time of great political change in the nation as well. Talmadge was a staunch opponent of civil rights legislation, but he began to reach out to black voters in the 1970s. -
Ivan Allen Jr
Ivan Allen, Jr. was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s. Allen provided leadership for transforming the segregated and “Old South” into the progressive “New South” .Allen took over the Ivan Allen Company, his father’s office supply business, in 1946. He created a plan that would be his roadmap as mayor for creating an economic surge that established the foundations for modern Atlanta. -
1956 State Flag
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The current Georgia state flag was the state's third in twenty-seven months. The new flag features the state coat of arms, surrounded by thirteen stars, which represent the original American colonies.
State Flag, 2004
May 8, 2003, Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation creating a new state flag for Georgia. The new banner became effective immediately, giving Georgia its third state flag in only twenty-seven months—a national record. Georgia also leads the nation in the number and variety o
