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Archaic
The earliest phases of a culture, the term is most frequently used by art historians to denote the period of artistic development in Greece from about 650 to 480 BC, the date of the perian sack of Athens. During the Archaic period, Greek art became less rigidly stylized and more naturalistic. Painting on vases envolved from geometric designs to representations of human figures, often illustrating epic tales. In sculpture, faces were animated with the characteristic ''Archaic smile,'' and bodies. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
The Paleo-indians are the earliest known settlers of Americans. The period's name derives from the appearance of "lithic flaked" stone tools. Paleo-indians, Paleoindians or Paleoamericans is a classification term given to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the Americans during the final glacial episodes of the late pleistocene period. The prefix ''Paleo'' comes from Greek. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
The term "Woodland Period'' was introduced in the 1930s as a generic header for prehistoric sits falling between the Archaic hunter-gathers and the agriculturalist Mississippian cultures. The Eastern Woodlands cultural region covers what is now eastern canada south of the subaratic region, States, along to the Gulf of Mexico. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1100
Mississippian
Mississippian people were horiculturalists. They grew much of their own food in small gardens using simple tools like stone axes, digging sticks, and fire. Corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, goosefoot, sumpweed, and other plants were cultivated. They also ate wild plants and animals, gathering nuts, fruits, and hunting such game as deer, turkeus, and other small animals. Mississippian people also collected fish, shellfish, and turtles from rivers, streams, and ponds. -
Period: Oct 27, 1496 to May 21, 1542
Hernando De Soto
A Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern day United States (Florida,Georgia,Alabama,and most likey Arkansas) and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippian river. A vast undertaking,de soto's North American expedition ranged throughout the southeastern United States searching for gols,silver and a passage to china. De soto died in 1542 on the banks of the mississippian river in what is now the Guachoya. -
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Charter of 1732
King George was the king England during the colonial period.
King George granted and signed the charter of 1732. Head of Trustees governed and managed the colony. The charter was granted on april 21,1732 King George signed the charter on june 7,1732. Oglethorpe believed that the best way for the worthy poor to find a new life was to start a new colony. The Georgia charter granted an area of ''all those lands,countries and territories'' between the Savannah and the Altmaha rivers. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Geogria Salzburgers,a group of German speaking Protestant colonists,founded the town of Ebenezer in what is now Effingham county. Arriving in 1734,the group recieved support from King George II of England and the Georgia Trustees after they were expelled from their home in the catholic princilpalite of Salzburg (in present day Austria.)The Salzburgers surivived extreme hardships in both Europe and Culturally unique community. -
Highland Scots Arrive
When the Highland Scots migrated to America, North Carolina was a more popular place to settle than any of the other colonies.In 1739, Gabriel Johnston royal governor of North Carolina and native Scotsman,encouraged 360 Highlands Scots to settle in north carolina and later provided them a ten-year tax exemption for doing so.Subsequent offers by Johnson attracted Highland Scots to North Carolina primarliy for economic and political reason,for in scotland,they had difficulities paying. -
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American Revolution
The political upheavel in the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together for independence from the British Empire,and after victory in the revolutionary war combining to form the United States of America.The American Revolution includes poltical,social,and miltary aspects.The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the stamp act in 1765 and ended with the United States Bill of rights in 1791. -
University of Georgia founded
When 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 endow a college or seminary of learning. -
Consitiutional Convention
The Consitiutional Convention (also known as the Philadelphia convention,the federal convention,or the grand convention Philadellphia)took place from may 25 to september 17,1787 in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,to address problems in governing the United States of America,which had been operating under the articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britian. -
Georgia Founded
It has been more decades since the British had established a new colony. James Eward Oglethorpe,a philanthropist and an English general,along with twenty-one other men,created a charter to settle a new colony which they named georgia in honor of King George II. The grant established land between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers as well as the waters of these rivers. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Augusta The U.S, consitiution has always been contentious. Our sacred charter was born in controversy and remains so to this day.Georgia elected six delegates to the consitional convention in Philadephia in summer of 1787. Only four went ans only two-Abraham Baldwin and william few-signed the final document.The convention, chained ny George Washington, had yje authority to revise the articles of confederation -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
In 1794, United States born investor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton him. A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid 19th century, cotton had became Americas leading export. Despite its success the gin made little money for Whitney due to patent infringement issues. -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.
Among the few heroes of the revolutionary war from Georgia,Elijah Clarke (sometimes spelled ''Clark'')was born in 1742,the son of John Clarke of Anson county,North Carolina.He married Hannah Harrington around 1763.As an improverished illiterate frontiersman,he appeared in the ceded lands,on what was then the northwestern frontier of Georgia,in 1773.Clarke's name appears on a petition in support of the Kings government in 1774. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds,a captain in the British royal navy,served as Georgia's first royal governor from late 1754 to early 1757.Little is known about Reynold's early life except that his birth occurred in England Circa 17713 and that at fifteen years of age he volunteered for service is the British navy.His career advanced slowly but steadily.He obtained command of his first vessel,the fireship scipio,in 1745,and the next year he served as captain of Arundel,a fortygun vessel. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
According to one anedote, Jonh Witherods found a three-ounce nugget along Duke's creek in Harbersham county. Another says that Jesse Hogan, a prespector from North Carolina found gold on ward's creek near Dahlonega. Yet another finds a young Bejamin Parks kicking up an unusual-looking stone while on the lookout for deer west of the chestatee river in 1828. -
Worcester V.Georgia
was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. The opinion is most famous for its dicta, which laid out the relationship between tribes and the state and federal governments, stating that the federal government was the sole authority to deal with Indian nations. -
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Trail of tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850.Sectional tensions over the issue of the westward expansion of slavery, previously resolved by the Missouri Compromise, were reawakened with the debate over Texas Annexation and the Mexican War. Texas Annexation was the major issue in the national elections of 1844, but, despite some signs of a sectional split, the election was resolved along. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the terrories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereighty whether they would allow slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner, an army doctor, had spent time in Illinois, a free state, and Wisconsin, a free territory at the time of Scott’s residence. The Supreme Court was stacked in favor of the slave states. Five of the nine justices were from the South while another, Robert Grier of Pennsylvania, was staunchly pro-slavery. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the majority decision, which was issued on March 6, 1857. -
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. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln.
Republican.
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Union Blockade of Georgia
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, under Union general Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan," the Union navy had positioned a serviceable fleet off the coast of the South's most prominent Confederate ports. -
Battle of Antietam
The Army of the 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, 1862. The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. -
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Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettyburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. -
Battle of Chickamauga
While they marched on September 18th, his cavalry and infantry skirmished with Union mounted infantry, who were armed with state-of-the-art Spencer repeating rifles. Fighting began in earnest on the morning of the 19th near Chickamauga Creek. Bragg’s men heavily assaulted Rosecrans’ line, but the Union line held. Fighting resumed the following day. -
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Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) 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. -
Sherman's Altanta Campaign
Sherman's Atlanta campaign began in early May 1864, and in the first few months his troops engaged in several fierce battles with Confederate soldiers on the outskirts of the city, including the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, which the Union forces lost. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was created in 1865 during the Lincoln administration, by an act of Congress called the Freedman's Bureau Bill. It was passed on March 3, 1865, in order to aid former slaves through food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was known officially, held more prisoners at any given time than any of the other Confederate military prisons. It was built in early 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners in and around Richmond to a place of greater security and more abundant food. During the 14 months it existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here. Of these, almost 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, and malnutrition. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization. -
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WEB DuBois
NAACP History: W.E.B. Dubois. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. -
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. -
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. -
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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." -
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International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. -
Carl Vinson
Born on November 18, 1883, in Baldwin County, Vinson was one of seven children born to Edward Storey Vinson, a farmer, and Annie Morris. He attended Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College in Milledgeville, read law with county judge Edward R. Hines, and earned a degree from Mercer University's law school in Macon in 1902. Admitted to the state bar, Vinson became a junior partner of Judge Hines in Milledgeville. -
Eugene Talmadge
Politician.
Eugene Talmadge (September 23, 1884 – December 21, 1946) was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in November 1946, he died before his (January 1947) inauguration. -
William B. Hartsfield
William Berry Hartsfield, Sr. (March 1, 1890 – February 22, 1971), was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. His tenure extended from 1937 to 1941 and again from 1942 to 1962, making him the longest-serving mayor of his native Atlanta, Georgia. -
Henry Mcneal Turner
One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia,
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 (A.M.E.) in Georgia.
Henry McNeal Turner
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. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
April 13, 1896: Homer A. Plessy v. Ferguson was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States. May 18, 1896: In a 7 to 1 decision the "separate but equal" provision of public accommodations by state governments was found to be constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. -
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.
Richard B. Russell Jr.
served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. -
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1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes". -
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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. In 1965 he persuaded the Braves to move to Atlanta from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm. -
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Herman Talmadge
Herman Eugene Talmadge, Sr., was a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia. He served as the 70th Governor of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955. -
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) 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. -
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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. -
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Lester Maddox
The Pickrick. Entry into Politics. Maddox as Governor. After the Governorship. The tumultuous political and social change in Georgia during the 1960s yielded perhaps the state's most unlikely governor, Lester Maddox.Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003), was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
County Unit System
Election day in Kingsland, Camden County, in the early 1960s, before the advent of voting booths. Georgia's elections were governed by the county unit system, which gave more weight to rural votes than to urban votes, until 1962. Even though they were home to a minority of Georgians, rural counties usually decided the winners of statewide elections. -
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Tom Watson and the Populuists
The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing and controversial among Georgia politicians. In his early years he was characterized as a liberal, especially for his time. In later years he emerged as a force for white supremacy and anti-Catholic rhetoric. He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the U.S. Senate (1920), where he served for only a short time before his death. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. He was also the 39th U.S. President. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia, seving from 1760 to 1782,with brief interruption early in the American Revolution (1775-83).Almost alone among colonial governors,Wright was a popular and able administrator and servant of the crown.He played a key role in retarding the flame of revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every other colony.Wright was born in London,England,on may 8,1716 to Isabella and Robert Wright. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among many efforts, King headed the SCLC. Through his activism, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and other areas of the nation, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Andrew Young
—Andrew Young Jr. Synopsis. Born on March 12, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Andrew Young Jr. became active in the Civil Rights Movement, working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. -
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Holocaust
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) 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.Introduction.
Formed in March 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC, was one of the first New Deal programs. It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 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. -
Rural Electrification
RUS traces its roots to the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), one of the New Deal agencies created under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The REA was created on May 11, 1935, with the primary goal of promoting rural electrification. -
Social Security
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA)[2] is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. To qualify for most of these benefits, most workers pay Social Security taxes on their earnings; claimant's benefits are based on the wage earner's contributions. -
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World War ll
Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead). Sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
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Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
This WSB clip from January 17, 1961 features Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter on the campus of The University of Georgia. Holmes and Hunter became the first two African American students admitted to the University, one of many segregated southern institutions.
When they initially tried to apply in the Winter Quarter of 1959, they were not accepted because of “limited space.” -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
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1946 Governor's Race
The 1946 governor's race is known as the three governors controversy. When Eugene Talmadge died, the General Assembly chose his son, as governor. The lieutenant governor Melvin Thompson, objected and claimed that he should be the new governor. Ellis Arnall refused to leave the office. Georgia Supreme Court decided for Melvin Thompson. -
Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Hawks play their home games at Philips Arena. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Sibley Commission
In 1955, the General Assembly decided to cut off state funds to any system that integrated its schools. Governor Ernest Vandiver was forced to choose between closing the public schools or to give the situation to the Federal Government to order them to desegregate the schools. State representative George Busbee introduced the legislation creating the General Assembly Committee on schools known as Sibley Commission. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced "snick": /ˈsnɪk/) was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. -
The Albany Movement
In Albany, Georgia, schools were still segregated even after 6 years from the Brown vs. Board of Education case. Mostly farm community, Albany became a place for civil rights activity in 1961 with a 40% population of African Americans. There were many discriminations going on at this time in Albany, Georgia. Very small amount of African Americans were allowed to vote and many Africans were arrested for being in places reserved for whites only like the bus stations. -
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. -
March on Washington
On June 19, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sent the boldest civil rights bill in history to the Congress. In the bill, he called for an end to discrimination in public facilities, assurance of fair employment and voter registration practices, withholding of federal funds from projects where discrimination was practiced, and the authority of the attorney general of the United States to file suit against school districts where desegregation had not been carried out. -
Civil Rights Act
In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy went on national television to tell them of his plan to ask Congress to pass a new civil rights law and how segregation is just ridiculous. Near the end of the month, President sent the civil rights bill he talked about, and it was considered as the strongest bill in history. In Dallas on November 23, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated and didn't get to live to see the civil rights bill become law in 1964. -
Maynard Jackson Elected 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. During his tenure, Jackson increased the amount of city bussiness going to minority firms rose dramatically. -
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Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) 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, and the progression of political rights of African Americans in America. -
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1996 Olympic Games
The 1996 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1996), known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially as the Centennial Olympic Games, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from July 19 to August 4, 1996. -
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.Super Bowl.
XXXIV →
Super Bowl XXXIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1998 season. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant Events in the post revolutionary was (1775-1783) history of Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the states public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia politics and the strain relations with the federal government for a generation. -
Capital moved to Louisville
When Georgia declared it's independence from Great Britain in 1776, Altanta did not exist. At that time, Indians occupied most of state, and the Altanta vicinity fell on the boundary line between the creek and Cherokee Indians the two principal Indian tribes in Georgia. The story of how Altanta come to be Georgia's capital city and of the giddiness capital building is a fascinating one.
