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World: Galveston hurricane leaves an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 dead. According to the census, the nation's population numbers nearly 76 million.
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World: William McKinley is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, N.Y.
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World: San Francisco earthquake leaves 500 dead or missing and destroys about 4 sq mi of the city.
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Region: Convict lease system abolished. Replaced by the notorious "Chain Gangs."
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Region: Joseph M.____ Brown becomes governor.
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World: William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president.
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Region: Three blacks killed in Georgia over James Jeffries loss to Jack Johnson in boxing match
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Region: A new Ku Klux Klan is started November 25, Thanksgiving night, on Stone Mountain by William Joseph Simmons.
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Region: Rebecca Latimer Felton appointed first female US Senator to fill the vacancy left by her deceased husband pending a special election.
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World: President Harding dies suddenly. He is succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge.
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Book: Cellie gives birth to two children at the age of fourteen.
Cellies father Alphonso rapes and abuses Cellie. She gives birth to a girl, which is stolen by her father and killed in the woods. The second time Cellie is impregnated by her father, she gives birth to a boy. Alphonso also takes this child away from Cellie. Cellie thinks both her children are dead. -
Book: Mr.____ asks for Nettie's hand in marriage
Nettie is Cellie's younger sister. Alphonso refuses Mr. ____'s offer to marry Nettie but says he can marry Cellie because she's older. After a lot of thought, Mr. decides to marry Cellie. -
Region: The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation treatment for suffers of poliomyelitis is founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Book: Nettie comes and stays with Cellie and Mr. to get away from their fathers abuse
Mr.____ still desires Nettie. Angry that Nettie does not feel the same way, he kicks Nettie out of his house. In his last attempt to be with Nettie, he follows her when she leaves. Nettie fights him off, and Mr.____ assures her she will never see her sister again. -
Book: Mr.____ son, Harpo, gets married
Harpo impregnants Sofia and they are soon married. Harpo wishes Sofia would obey him like Cellie obeys Mr.____. Harpo desperately tries to gain weight so he can beat Sofia. Every time Harpo tires, Sofia beats him too. -
Book: Shug becomes ill
Shug and Mr. had relationships before he married Cellie. Mr. takes Shug into his home. Cellie is very excited because she has always looked up to her. Shug is first rude to Cellie but soon learns to respect her as Cellie takes care of her. -
Book: Sofia leaves Harpo
Sofia becomes tired of Harpo trying to control her. She leaves for her sister's house, taking her children with her. Once Sofia is gone, Harpo opens a juke joint. This place becomes more and more popular when Shug starts to perform there. -
Book: Cellie tells Shug about her sister
Cellie tells Shug how she assumes her sister, Nettie, is dead. Nettie said she would write Cellie, but Cellie never got a single letter. Shug says that Mr. has a ton of letters he keeps hidden in the trunk of his car. Shug and Cellie get the letters and put them in order. Shug and Cellie read the letters together. Now, instead of writing to God, Cellie writes to her sister Nettie. -
Region: Ellis G. Arnall, governor. Wins Supreme Court Case to equalize freight rates.
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Book: Cellie finally stands up for herself
Cellie curses out Mr. at the dinner table, and she and Shug announce they are moving to Tennessee. While in Tennessee, Cellie keeps herself busy by sewing pants while Shug was performing. Her pants became extremely successful. She is able to open her own store and hire Sofia. Cellie is no longer dependent on anyone. -
Book: Nettie traveled to Africa
The letters from Nettie tell how she has become a missionary and traveled to Africa with a couple, Samuel and Corrine, and their adopted children. Corrine sees the children resemble Nettie and begins to question her. Nettie seeks the truth from Samuel about where the children came from. The story reveals that Alphonso gave him those children and that he was not Cellie's and Nettie's real father. Nettie was with Cellie's children and they were alive and well! -
Region: President Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia.
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Book: Nettie comes home
Cellie gets to see her sister and her two children. She and Mr. enjoy each other's company and Cellie gets the respect she deserves from him. She finally made it through her struggle and is happy. -
Region: University of Georgia enrolls two Black students, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, under federal court order.
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Region: Black legislators seated for the first time in 58 years.