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Electrification
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Holocaust
The Holocaust (Ha-shoah in Hebrew) took place between 1933 and 1945 and is associated with the persecution and murder of over 6,000,000 Jews and other people, including gays and Roma people. -
Richard Russell
Richard B. Russell Jr. became one of the youngest members of the Georgia House of Representatives upon his election in 1920. By the time of this 1928 photograph, he was serving as Speaker of the House. Russell would later take office in 1931 as Georgia's youngest governor, and he entered national politics as a U.S. senator in 1933
served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. -
Social Security
In the United States, Social Security is the commonly used term for the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and is administered by the Social Security Administration.[1] The original Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935,[2] and the current version of the Act, as amended,[3] encompasses several social welfare and social insurance programs. -
William B. Hartsfield
William was a mayor of the city of Atlanta One of the Greatest. William served a number of 6 terms as mayor of Atlanta Longer than any other person has served in the city of Atlanta. -
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World War 2
The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict–World War II–which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin was known as the longtime president of Morehouse College In the state of Atlanta. 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 mostarticulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. -
Lend -Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
John Lewis
He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. His district includes three-quarters of Atlanta. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. -
1946 governor's race
This event is one of the more bizzare political spectacles in the annals of American politics. In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman served as governor of Georgia for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1953. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980 -
Brown v. Board Of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The SNCC, or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, was a civil-rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. -
Sibley commission
In 1960 Georgiagovernor 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. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens. One of the first two African American students admitted to UGA in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen Jr. Served as the mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He is most famous and credited for leading the city through economic growth and staying calm through the Civil Rights Movement. -
Atlanta Falcons
In the year of 1965 the Atlanta falcons became the first professional team in the city of Atlanta and the 15th NFL franchise in existence. Since the Falcons first game against Philadelphia The falcons became a mainstay In Atlanta's sports culture. -
Atlanta Braves
After several years in Boston, Massachusetts and 13 in Milwaukee The Braves had moved to Atlanta in 1966 to begin the MLB season. -
Atlanta Hawks
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Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. -
1956 state flag
On 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 of different state flags.
