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international cotton exposition
Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. -
Leo Frank Case
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. -
Henry Grady
A member of the Atlanta Ring of Democratic political leaders, Grady used his office and influence to promote a New South program of northern investment. -
International cotton exposition
Nearly 800000 people wanted to do it and i think they had a negro day on december 26, 1895 -
Plessy v Ferguson
In 1892, passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car. He was brought before Judge John H. Ferguson of the Criminal Court for New Orleans, who upheld the state law. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System generated great controversy due to the fact that it gave the votes of counties with smaller populations a significantly greater weight than counties with larger populations. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. -
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World War 1
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars. -
Booker T. Washington
Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. -
Tom Watson and the populists
In 1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party. Led by Thomas E. Watson. -
Alonzo Herndon
His success in barbering was spectacular, and as his earnings grew, he invested in real estate in Atlanta and in Florida. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. -
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. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. -
Eugene Talmadge
The senate committee further criticized the commissioner for having paid himself and family members more than $40,000 in salaries and expenses and for using department funds to underwrite his annual trips to the Kentucky Derby. -
Rural
At its inception, the field focused on the economic history of agriculture. -
WEB DuBois
Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
