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Paleo
PaleoPaleo Jan 1, 2000 12,000 years ago
Paleo indians migrated from aisa using the Bering strait landbridge.They are nomadic which means they move place to place, never established permanent settlements.The only weapons they had were spear heads.They hunted large game animals wich were mammoth, ground sloth, sabor toothed tiger and bison. -
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woodland
[Woodland](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org)the woodland lived in areas a long time and no longer nomadic. this is the group that discovered bow an arrow. Still hunted small game animals like fish, oysters, rabbitt,turkey, and deer. -
Jan 1, 1000
Mississipian
MississipianThe mississipian was first true civilization most advanced, they formed a government. the most advanced pottery and 1st group to live off of agriculture, corn, beans, and squash. -
Nov 11, 1540
Hernando De Soto
De soto explored georgia in search of gold. soldiers killed thousands during battles, thousands of natives were killed by diseases brought by the explorers. -
Charter of 1732
charter of 1732The first twenty years of georgia history are referred to as Trustee georgia because during that time period a board of Trustees's governed the colony. England's king george signed the charter of 1732 establishing the colony and creating its governing board on April 21, 1732. His action culminated a lengthy process. -
Salzburgers Arrive
salzburgersSalzburgers Arrived in goerfgia March 12, 1734. King George invited salzburgers to georgia to escape the catholics. First settled and named the town Ebenezer. They moved because of poor soil, flooding, and illness. Ebenezer was successful in developing silk, producing lumber, and cattle farming. -
Highland scots Arrive
highland scotsHighland scots arrived in georgia, Jan 10, 1736. The scots were not afraid of the spanish. Oglethorpe recuited them for the purpose of defending the colony. he settled on the Altamaha river and formed the city of Dariew. -
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John Reynolds
[john reynolds](<a href='http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/)John Reynolds a captain in the British royal navy, served as georgia's first royal governor from `754 to 1757. He returned to england in 1751 in search of a new command. Then he arrived in savannah on october 29, 1754. local residents met him with celebrations of bells and bonfires to express their hopes he healed a new era for the colony.' >John Reynolds</a>john reynoldsJohn Reynolds a captain in the British royal navy, served as georgia's first royal governor from `754 to 1757. He returned to england in 1751 in search of a new command. Then he arrived in savannah on october 29, 1754. local residents met him with celebrations of bells and bonfires to express their hopes he healed a new era for the colony. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis Henry Ellis is the second royal governor og georgia , has been called ''Goergia's second founder''. From 1750 until 1755 Ellis carried cargoes of slaves from africa to jamaica. -
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James Wright
[James Wright ](www.Georgiaencyclopedia.org)James Wright was the third and last royal governor of georgia. From 1760 to 1782. He became attorney general of south carolina in 1747. Wright returned to british occupied savannah in july 1779 and served as royal governor for 3 years. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded by james oglethorpe. he wanted to form a new world for the people who suffer.but he had to get permission first.then he went to georgia and met the yamacraw indians and he got permission from their leader tomochichi. -
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Yazoo Land fraud
[yazoo land fraud](www,georgiaencyclopedia.org)In 1795 one of Georgia’s worst political scandals took place - the Yazoo Land Fraud. At that time, Georgia’s legal boundary extended west to the Mississippi River. Many state leaders wanted to open this area to settlement, but Creeks, Cherokees, and other Native Americans lived there. If they could be persuaded to leave, then whites could settle the large expanse of land, greatly increasing Georgia’s population, and bringing profit to th -
capital moved to louisville
[capital moved to louisville](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org)Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson County, also served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until 1807. The town grew as the result of both large-scale immigration to the Georgia upcountry after the American Revolution (1775-83) and the desire of many Georgians to enhance the state's commercial prosperity. By the mid-1780s the new upcountry settlers outnumbered those in the older coastal counties, and upcountry legislato -
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American Revolution
[American Revolution](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org)The american revolution is also known asv the revolutionary war. The revolution arose from growing tesion between great Britians 13 colonies. This kicked off in 1775. -
Austin Dabney
[Austin Dabney](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org)Austin dabney was a slave who became a private in the georgia militia and fought against the british during the revolutionary war.He was the only African American to be granted land and his bravery and service during the revolution, one of the few torecieve a federal military pension. -
Eligah Clarke/Kettle Creek
Eligah ClarkeEligah Clarke led a rebel militia group. they defeated more than 800 british troops at the battle of kettle creek. the battle of kettle creek was minor and they needed weapons. -
University of georgia founded
University of georgia foundedWhen the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, 1785, Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported university. In 1784 the General Assembly had set aside 40,000 acres of land to endow a college or seminary of learning. -
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Constitutional Convetion
[Constitutional Convetion](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org)Constitutional conventions are a distinctly American political innovation, first appearing during the era of the Revolutionary War (1775-83). Georgia was among the first states to use a meeting of delegates to create a constitution. In October 1776, just three months after the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain, Georgia's first constitutional convention met and produced the state's inaugural constitution, known as the Constitution of 1777. Several other states also.. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
[georgia ratifies constitution](www.georgiaencyclopedia.org)State constitutions are best understood with reference to their historical roots. A review of the history of Georgia's ten constitutions provides a synopsis of the political, economic, and social history of the state. Georgia's constitutional history also illustrates the various methods by which a constitution may be written or revised. Georgia has used three different methods of constitutional revision: seven were revised by constitutional conventions, two by constitutional commissions, and... -
Eli Whitney and Cotton Gin
[Eli Whitney and Cotton Gin](ww.georgiaencyclopedia.org)Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts native, only spent a few months living in Georgia, but during that time, in 1793, he invented the cotton gin. Whitney's machine expedited the extraction of seeds from upland cotton, making the crop profitable and contributing to its expansion across the South.cotton gin, simple machine that separates cotton fibers from the seeds. -
Missouri Compromise
[Missouri Compromise](georgiaencyclopedia.org)Their goal was to maintain balance between free and slave states. Missouri entered as a slave state, Maine entered as a free state. Border created south of missouri, north is free, south is slaves and lasted for 30 years. -
Dahlonega Gold rush
<a href='www.georgiaencyclopedia.org' >dahlonega Gold Rush</aDahlonega, the seat of Lumpkin County, lies about sixty-five miles north of Atlanta in the Blue Ridge province. The town is closely associated with Georgia's gold history; its name derives from a Cherokee word referring to the yellow color of gold. The Dahlonega area was part of the Cherokee Nation when European settlers first arrived. After the 1828-29 discovery of gold, thousands of miners—known as "Twenty-Niners"—poured into the ar> -
Henry Mcneal turner
One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia, Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Georgia, later rising to the rank of bishop. Turner was also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon. Later in life, he became an outspoken advocate of back-to-Africa emigration -
Compromise of 1850
[compromise of 1850](georgiaencyclopedia.org) California is going to upset the balance of power. In the North Caolina is a free state, slave trdaing in Washington D.C. ends. In the south Utah and N. mexico open to vote on slavery fugitive slave law. All runaway slaves must be returned. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
[Kansas-Nebraska Act](georgiaencyclopedia.org)A law mandating that popular sovereinty be used to determine free or slave. popular sovereinty= voting on the issue of slavery. proslavery settlers {missouri} and antislavery settlers from iowa clash and riot. Some killed called "Bleeding Kansas". -
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Tom Watson and the Populist
In 1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party. Led by the brilliant orator Thomas E. Watson this new party mainly appealed to white farmers, many of whom had been impoverished by debt and low cotton prices in the 1880s and 1890s. Populism, which directly challenged the dominance of the Democratic Party, threatened to split the white vote in Georgia. Consequently, the Populists boldly tried to win black Republicans to their cause -
Booker T. Washington
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. -
Dred Scott Case
[Dred Scott case](georgia encyclopedia.org)Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri whose owner moved to Illinois{free}. Scott sues for his frreedom but court ruled that scott is property and not a citizen. He proved that slavery could go anywhere and can travel. -
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 -
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Union Blockade
[Union Blockade](georgiaencyclpedia.org)The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War (1861-65). U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline took time to materialize, but by early 1862 the Union navy had positioned a serviceable fleet off the coast of the South's most prominent Confederate ports. There main portable way was by railroads. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campain
[Sherman's Atlanta Campain](georgiaencyclopedia.org)The March
Ohio native and Union general William T. Sherman lost the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864. In September of that same year his army captured Atlanta before embarking on its March to the Sea, from Atlanta to Savannah, in November. Sherman later chronicled his wartime experiences in a memoir, published in 1875.
William T. Sherman
to the Sea, the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the Civil War (1861-65), began in Atlanta on November 15, 1864. -
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Sherman's march to sea
the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the civil war, began in Atlanta on November 15, 1864, and concluded in savannah on December 21, 1864. Union general William T. Sherman abandoned his supply line and marched across Georgia to the Atlantic ocean to prove ton the confederate population that its government could not protect the people from invaders. His men destroyed all sources of food and forage, often in retaliation of the activities of local confederate. -
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Andersonville prison camp
In February 1864, a confederate prison was established in Macon county, in southwest Georgia, to provide relief for the large number of union prisoners concentrated in and around Richmond, Virginia. New camp officially named camp sumter, became Andersonville after the railroad station. Summer of 1864, it held the largest prison population, with numbers that would made it fifth- largest city. those numbers along with sanitation, health, and mortality problems stemming from its overcrowding. -
Election of 1860
[Election of 1860](georgiaencyclopedia.org)Southern Democrats did not agree and believed slavery should be allowed in all terrotories. The rebublican Platform was not just against slavery, although the party said it would not try to end slavery in the slave states. -
Battle of Antietam
[Battle of Antietam](georgiaencyclopedia.org)The battle of antietam was the army of northern virginai's first invasion into the north. It was a union victory at the battle of Antietam, and gave abraham lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the bloodies one day battle, 23,000 killed, wounded, and missing. -
Emancipation Proclamation
[Emancipation Proclamation](georgiaencyclpedia.org)Five days after the battle of Antietamn Lincoln issued the Emancipation Prolcamtion, a Document ultimately affecting 4 million slaves in the united states. Lincoln stated that unless the south surrended by january 1, 1863 " all slaves in states or districts in rebillion against the united states will be thenceforth and forever free". but the confederate leaders chose to continue to fight. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
[Battle of Gettysburg](georgiaencyclpedia.org)The battle of gettysburg was a turning point fought, and resulted as a union victory. The union victory of gettysgurg resulted in Lee's retreat to virginia. Was the bloodiest with 51,000 casualties, asured the north a victory. -
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Battle of Chickamauga
[Battle of Chattanooga](georgiaencyclopedia.org)Union General William Rosecrans led his troops against confederate General Braxton Bragg seven miles south of chattanooga at Chickamauga creek. They defeated them and forced them back to tennessee but bragg didnt follow up on the union retreat. By November 1863, Ulysses Grant had arrived with more troops and recaptured chattanooga forcing Bragg to retreat south to Dalton. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption -
Ku Klux Klan
From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65). They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era -
John and Lugenia Hope
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.
Hope Family
was an important African American educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. In 1906 he became the first black president of Morehouse College—the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr. -
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W.E.B. DuBois
In Georgia, Du Bois wrote some of his best-known works, including The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, and Black Reconstruction, and established a journal dealing with the African American experience called Phylon, which has recently resumed publication. His 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. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century -
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International Cotton Exposition
The 1881 International Cotton Exposition buildings in Atlanta's Oglethorpe Park consisted of a central building and several wings. The central building was devoted to textile-manufacturing displays while the wings showcased other southern products, including sugar, rice, and tobacco. -
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. He chaired the House Naval Affairs Committee for sixteen years (1931-47) and its successor, the House Armed Services Committee, for fourteen years (1949-53 and 1955-65). -
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. -
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. -
Benjamin Mays
A distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist, Benjamin Mays is perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. 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. Mays also filled a leadership role in several significant national and international organizations -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson is a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. -
Richard Ruessell
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. -
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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 mob violence. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen Jr served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. while other southern cities experienced recurring violence, atlanta leaders, led in part by mayor allen, were able to broker more peaceful paths to intergration. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia
Herman Talmadge, son of Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge, took the governor's office briefly in 1947, and again after a special election in 1948.
Herman Talmadge
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 duri -
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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 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. -
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.On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain, went to the pencil factory to pick up her $1.20 pay for the twelve hours she had worked that week. -
Lester Maddox
[Letster Maddox](www.georgiahistory.com)The tumultuous political and social change in Georgia during the 1960s yielded perhaps the state's most unlikely governor, Lester Maddox. Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, Maddox surprised many by serving as an able and unquestionably colorful chief executive. Early Years Born in Atlanta to a working-class family on September 30, 1915, Lester Garfield Maddox grew up knowing poverty. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King jr was a baptist minister and social activist. Martin Luther King led the civil rights movement in the united states. As he played a rule in ending The legal segregation of African American citizens in the south. That was when his " I have a dream" speech was a hit in 1963. -
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Great Depression
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Cotton sharecropper family in Macon County, 1937. The Great Depression did not end in Georgia until the United States entered World War II in 1941. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Sharecropping Family, Macon County
stock market crash in the waning days of October 1929 heralded the beginning of the worst economic depression in U.S. history. The Great Depression hit the South, including Georgia, harder than some other regions of the country, and in fact only worsened an economic downturn that h -
Andrew Young
[Andrew Young](www.georgiahistory.com)Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been in great measure responsible for the development of Atlanta's reputation as an international city. Early Life and Career Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born on March 12, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a prosperous middle-class family. His mother, Daisy Fuller, was a schoolteacher, and his father, Andrew Young, was a dentist. -
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Holocaust
Anti-Semitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself dates only to the 1870s, there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust–even as far back as the ancient world, when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine. The Enlightenment, during the 17th and 18th centuries, emphasized religious toleration, and in the 19th century Napoleon and other European rulers enacted legislation that ended lo -
Civilian Conservation Corps
Among the numerous New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is remembered as one of the most popular and effective. Established on March 31, 1933, the corps's objective was to recruit unemployed young men (and later, out-of-work veterans) for forestry, erosion control, flood prevention, and parks development. The president's ambitious goal was to enroll a quarter of a million men by July 1, 1933. -
Rural Electrification
Rural schools in Georgia are found across the state, on its rolling pastures, red clay fields, sandy coastlines, and wooded mountains. Geographic variations, along with differences in historical, cultural, and economic identities, create unique settings for rural education in Georgia. Despite the diversity of settings, there are several distinctively rural characteristics and schooling practices that are common in Georgia. -
Social Security
An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes. -
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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. Some 320,000 Georgians served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, and countless others found employment in burgeoning wartime industries. Their experiences were pivotal in determining the state's future development, and the war itself marked a watershed in Georgia's history. Because it occurred when important shifts in the state's politics, race relations. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
World War I severely disrupted agriculture in Europe. That was an advantage to farmers in the United States, who increased production dramatically and were therefore able to export surplus food to European countries. But by the 1920s, European agriculture had recovered and American farmers found it more difficult to find export markets for their products. Farmers continued to produce more food than could be consumed, and prices began to fall. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
[hamilton holmes](www.georgiahistory.com)[hamilton holmes](www.georgiahistory.com)Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities. One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later. Hamilton Earl "Hamp" Holmes was born July 8, 1941, in Atlanta. His father, Alfred "Tup" Holmes, was an Atlanta businessman, and his mother, Isabella, was a schoolteacher -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The U.S. government first obtained exclusive use of the inlet and the right to maintain a repair and coaling station for ships here in 1887.[1] The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941 was the immediate cause of the United States -
charlayne hunter
[Charlayne Hunter](www.georgiahistory.com)Charlayne Hunter-Gault holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print. Childhood and Family Charlayne Hunter was born on February 27, 1942, in Due West, South Carolina. The oldest child of Althea Ruth Brown and Charles S. H. Hunter Jr. -
1946 Governors Race
In December 1946, Eugene Talmadge, the governor elected of georgia died. The Store constitution did not specify who would assume the governorship in such a situation. The situation become known as the three governors controversy. Eventually a Ruling by the supreme court of georgia sttled the matter. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This changed schools forever. This land mark case said that there was no such thing as "seperate but equal" and that schools in the south needed to intergrate. This case overturned the plessy v. ferguson case that stated that segregation was legal as long as it was equal. Many southern whites were upset about the idea that the government was intervening in the school, but for african- americans, this was a major civil rights victory. -
Sibley Commision
[sibley commision](www.georgiahistory.com)In 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 creating the General Assembly Committee on Schools. Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor -
SNCC
The SNCC was a group of students who organized non-violent protests. Protests like sit-ins were organized to show inequality in the south. The SNCC supported the march on washington and the albany movement. -
The Albany Movement
[Albany Movement](www.georgiahistory.com)The civil rights movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality. From Atlanta to the most rural counties in Georgia's southwest Cotton Belt, black activists protested white supremacy in a myriad of ways—from legal challenges and mass demonstrations to strikes and self-defense. -
March on washington
[march on washington ](www.georgiahistory.com)The civil rights movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality. From Atlanta to the most rural counties in Georgia's southwest Cotton Belt, black activists protested white supremacy in a myriad of ways—from legal challenges and mass demonstrations to strikes and self-defense. -
Civil Rights Act
[civil rights act](www.georgiahistory.com)The civil rights movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality. From Atlanta to the most rural counties in Georgia's southwest Cotton Belt, black activists protested white supremacy in a myriad of ways—from legal challenges and mass demonstrations to strikes and self-defense. -
atlanta falcons
In 1965 the Atlanta Falcons became the first professional football team in the city of Atlanta and the fifteenth National Football League (NFL) franchise in existence.
Since the team's first preseason game against Philadelphia at Atlanta Stadium (later Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium ), the Falcons have become a mainstay in Atlanta's sports culture. Now playing at the Georgia Dome, the Falcons join the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawksas professional sporting attractions in Georgia. -
atlanta braves
three mediocre seasons the Braves won the Western Division of the National League in 1969, the first year of divisional play. Hank Aaron powered the Braves' offensive attack, while knuckleball pitcher Phil Niekro had the best season of his outstanding career. In the series for the National League pennant, the Braves lost three straight games to the "miracle" New York Mets. -
Atlanta Hawks
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Atlanta Hawks player Al Harrington (left) attempts a rebound during a game with the Phoenix Suns at Philips Arena in 2006. The Hawks franchise moved to Atlanta from St. Louis, Missouri, in 1968 and has played home games at Philips Arena since 1999.
Atlanta Hawks
Hawks, a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise and part of the Eastern Conference's Southeast Division, have called Atlanta home since 1968. Playing at Philips Arena in the heart of downtown Atlanta, the Hawks join the Bra -
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jimmy carter in georgia
[jimmy carter in georgia](www.georgiahistory.com)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 (1971-75). After being defeated in the presidential election of 1980, he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
[Maynard Jackson](www.georgiahistory.com)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, following the mayorship of Andrew Young. As a result of affirmative action programs instituted by Jackson in his first two terms, the portion of city business going to minority firms rose dramatically. -
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1996 olympic games
[1996 olympic gams](www.georgiahistory.com)From July 19 until August 4, 1996, Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games, an event that was without doubt the largest undertaking in the city's history. The goal of civic leaders was to promote Atlanta's image as an international city ready to play an important role in global commerce. Preparations for the Olympics took more than six years after the awarding of the bid to Atlanta and had an estimated economic impact on the city of at least $5.14 billion -
1965 State Flag
Its old flag before last contained red and white stripes and the seal of the state. In 1956, as a response to intergrating the schools, Georgia adopted the St. Andrew's cross as a part of their state flag. This upset many civil rights activities in the state. Fpr years, the state was debated georgia later removed the emblem and changed its flag in 2001, and again 2004. -
Archaic
ArchaicThe Archaic return to the spot each season.They may live in pihouses, caves, rooms underground.They had smaller, thinner, spear heads, and more pointed.They had smaller animal like deer, turkey, bear, fish, oysters, shellfish, nuts and berries.
