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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Period
Seasonal migration to the same spots each season pattern.The Archaic group had pithouses and underground shelter.They became more reliant on groups. Archaic had simple pottery.They hunted with small,thinner and more pointerd spear heads.Large animals became extinct. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Period
More social, began forming tribes.They live in areas for long periods of time. The bow and arrow has been created and they have more advanced pottery. Also they experiment with faming. Religion is starting to form using mounds to bury the dead and ceremonies. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Period
Paleo came from Aisa on Bering Sea Strait Landbridge. Paleo is nomadic which means they moved from one place to another. Also they never established perminant settlements. Paleo used large spear heads to hunt and they hunted large game animals. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian Period
They have perminant settlements. The tribal government has developed 'chiefdom'. Pottery has been advanced. They have also created jewelry and statues. They are small game hunters and they off farming. Organized trade between tribes and villages. Most advanced religious thinking, mounds and temples. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando De Soto
Desoto explored Georgia in search gold. Soldiers killed thousands of natives during battles because they had better weapons. Thousands of natives died from diseases. Other explorers like Spain, England, and France explored their journals kept om the expeditionamd helped understand the native tribe. -
Charter of 1732
The first 20 years of Georgia history are referred to as a trustee of Georgia because during that time a board of trustees governed the colony.King George signed a charter establishing the colony and creating its governering board on April 21,1732.James Oglethorpe famous for conducting a parlimentary investigation into the conditions of london prisons,excercised a leading role in the movement to found the new colony.Percevil helped Oglethorpe and they wanted people to begin a new life. -
capitol moved to louisville
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).Organizers envisioned Louisville as a trade center, and Commissioners Brownson, Few, and Lawson purchased 1,000 acres on the south side of Rocky Comfort Creek near the Ogeechee River to take advantage of the river transportation. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded in 1733. Georgia was the last of the 13 colonies. James Oglethorepe was the founder of Georgia. Georgia was named in honor of king George. -
Salzburgers
Protestants were expelled from the country of Salzburg which today is a province of Australia.In 1731-1732 the Salzburgers were forced to leave the land.From the british KIng George came an invitation to the exiles to settle in the new colony of Georgia.For the Atlantic crossing the little travel group ,which became known as the first Salzburger transport ,boarded in rotterdam a merchant ship named the purysburg. -
Highland Scots
A band of Highland Scots ,recruited from the vincity of inverness,Scotlandby Hugh Mackay and george dunbar,sailed from inverness on the prince of the wales in early january 1736,they arrived at Savannah and, on Oglethorpes orders, began making plans for settling at the mouth of the altamaha river. On the 19th of January after traveling down the inland waterway by boat, the Highlanders landed at barnwells bluff on the site fort king George. The scots established a settlement called darien. -
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elijah clarke and the battle of kettle creek
Among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia, Elijah Clarke was born in 1742, the son of John Clarke of Anson County, North Carolina.Elijah Clarke and thirty men passed through the Native American lands to continue the fight in the Carolinas. Besides receiving several battle wounds, Clarke also survived smallpox and the mumps during the Revolution.The state of Georgia rewarded his serviceswith a plantationHe also obtained thousands of acres of land grants, some by questionable men. -
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john reynolds
john reynolds was the first royal governor of georgia.Reynolds major accomplishments was the self government system.Also Reynolds organized a court system to handle disputes.Unfortunately Reynolds had a major error he tried to govern Georgia alone and there were disagreements between him and the legislatures.So reynolds sent the legislatures and they went to the king and the king replaced him. -
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Henry ellis
Henry ellis is georgias second royal governor.Ellis was very succesful and well liked.Ellis promoted farming and had great relations with the indians.Also ellis encouraged producing a variety of products.Ellis improved population. -
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James wright
Georgias third and final royal governor.James wright continued the exspansion of farms and trade started by henry ellis.Wright also built better defenses around Savannah and used the self government system as well.Wrights major error was trying to move the capitol from savannah and he enforced the stamp act which made colonists very angry. -
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american revolution
The American Revolution was a political fight that took place between 1765 and 1783.During which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.The American Revolution was the result of a series of social, political, and intellectual transformations in American society, government and ways of thinking.Starting in 1765 the Americans rejected the authority of the British. -
Austin dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in the Georgia militia and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War (1775-83).He was the only African American to be granted land by the state of Georgia in recognition of his bravery.he was Born in Wake County, North Carolina, in the 1760s,Dabney moved with his master, Richard Aycock, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in the late 1770s.In order to avoid military service himself, Aycock sent Dabney to join the Georgia militia as a substitute -
university of georgia founded
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.At the first meeting of the board of trustees, held in Augusta on February 13, 1786, Abraham Baldwin was selected president of the university.The university was actually established in 1801 when a committee of the board of trustees selected a land site.Josiah Meigs was named president of the university. -
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constitutional convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.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.first constitutional meet was october 1776. -
georgia founded
Georgia was founded in 1788.Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies.James Edward Oglethorpe was the founder of Georgia.Georgia was in honor of King George. -
georgia ratifies the constitution
State constitutions are best understood with reference to their historical roots.Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.The convention, chaired by George Washington, had the authority to revise the Articles of Confederation.A review of the history of Georgia's ten constitutions provides a synopsis of the political, economic, and social history of the state. -
eli whitney and the cotton gin
Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts native, only spent a few months living in Georgia,During that time,in 1793, he invented the cotton gin.Whitney's machine expedited the extraction of seeds from upland cotton.Whitney made the crop profitable and contributed to its expansion across the South.The cotton gin increased slavery because instead of the slaves picking cotton the machine did all the work so they could help with another crop. Also the cotton gin made it a whole lot easier to pick the seeds. -
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yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary War (1775-83) history of Georgia.The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the state's public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation. Georgia was too weak after the Revolution to defend its vast western land claims, called the "Yazoo lands" for the river that flowed through the westernmost part. -
missouri compromise
this compromise was to keep the balance between free and slave states.Missouri enters as a slave state and maine enters as a free state.The slavery border was drew at missouris border.The missouri compromise lasted 30 years -
dahlonega gold rush
Gold was found on cherokee land so it made settlers want to come looking for gold.Georgia passed a law removing the cherokees from their land.John Witheroods found a three-ounce nugget along Duke's Creek in Habersham County (present-day White County). Another says that Jesse Hogan, a prospector from North Carolina,found gold on Ward's Creek near Dahlonega. Benjamin Parks kicked up an unusual-looking stone while on the lookout for deer west of the Chestatee River in 1828. -
worcester vs Georgia
Worcester vs Georgia was started because Georgia took land from the Cherokees in pusuit of the Gold Rush.In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers.Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast. -
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trail of tears
In 1838-39 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their land in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land.The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
georgia platform
With the nation facing a threat of disunion the georgia platform was formed. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis.Slavery had been at the core of sectional tensions between the North and South.New territorial gains, westward expansion, and the hardening of regional attitudes toward the spread of slavery provoked a potential crisis of the Union. -
compromise of 1850
California entering the union will upset the balance between free and slave states.By late 1849,the population of california was over 100,00 enough to ask for statehood.In 1850 there were 15 slave states and 15 free states.California constitution didnt allow slavery.If california became a state the balance in the senate between slave and free states would change. -
henry mc.neal turner
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. -
kansas nebraska act
a law manditoring popular sovereignty in the territories of kansas and nebraska.Pro slavery and anti slavery settlers clash.As more people moved into the grassy plains west of missouri and Iowa,there was a need for a territoral government.In 1854,Stephen douglas of illinois brought about passage of the kansas nebraska act,which created the territories of kansa and nebraska act and which contained advance on popular sovereingty -
dred scott case
in 1834 Dred scott,a slave was taken by his master from the slave state to a free state.his master moved to a free state but courts said he couldnt be free.when scott and his owner returned to missouri he filed a lawsuit sayin he was free because he lived in a free state but the courst denied him because they said he was property. -
election of 1860
when the democrats met in charleston south carolina,for their national convention in 1860 there was a fight over the partyplatform.the supporters of stephen dougla of illinois controlled the platform comitee.They wanted to campaign on the issue of popular soverneight.Southern democrats did not agree and believed slavery should be allowed in all terrotories. -
uniion blockade of georgia
During the Civil War, the Union attempted to blockade the southern states. A blockade meant that they tried to prevent any goods, troops, and weapons from entering the southern states and keep supplies away.by doing this the union thought they can cqause that economy to collapse.the union continued to blockade the south throughput the civil waruntil the war ended in 1865. -
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. Later, towards the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunken Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle. -
emancipation proclamation
five days after the battle of antietam, president lincoln issued the emacipation proclamation.the emancipation proclamation is a document ultimately affecting 4 million slaves in the u.s.a. Lincoln wanted the confederate states to end the war, and return the union and end 244 years of slavery.in this now famous document ,Lincoln stated that unless the out surrendered by Jan.1,1863 all slaves in states or districts in rebellion against the u.s.a. will be thenceforth and forever free. -
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Battle of gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg in pennyslvania was a turning point in the civil war.The battle was fought July 1-3,1863, and resulted in union victory that ended general Robert lees second invasion on the north. The armies of Potomac ,the union army led by general Gordon made, collides with lees army of north virgina at the town Gettysburg.The union victory at the battle of Gettysburg resulted in lees retreat to Virginia and ended the hopes of the confederacy for victory. -
battle of Chickamauga
in 1863 ,union forces moved against the major confederate railroad center in Chattanooga Tennessee, just aross the Georgia line. On September 19-20 ,the union general William Rosecrans led troops against the confederate general Braxton bragg 7 miles south of the Chattanooga at Chickamauga creek. Braggs army defeated the union forces and forced the union back into Tennessee. But bragg did not follow up on the union retreat. By November 1863 general Ulysses grant had arrived with more troops. -
andersonville prison camp
From February 1864 until the end of the American Civil War in April 1865, Andersonville, Georgia, served as the site of a notorious Confederate military prison.The first inmates began arriving at the Andersonville prison in February 1864, while it was still under construction.The prison at Andersonville, officially called Camp Sumter, was the South’s largest prison for captured Union soldiers and known for its unhealthy conditions and high death rate. -
shermans atlanta campaign
Sherman’s goal was to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines. While Sherman failed to destroy his enemy, he was able to force the surrender of Atlanta in September 1864,boosting Northern morale and greatly improving President Abraham Lincoln’s re-election bid.With Atlantaunder Union control, Sherman embarked on his March to the Sea, which laid waste to the countryside and hastened the Confederacy’s defeat. -
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sherman's march to the sea
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.The purpose of this march to the sea was to frighten georgia's civilian population into abandoning the confederate cause.Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back.The Yankees were “not only fighting hostile armies. -
freedoms bureau
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was known as the Freedmen's Bureau, established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.Some 4 million slaves gained their freedom as a result of the Union victory in the war, which left many communities in ruins and destroyed the South’s plantation-based economy.The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. -
thirteenth amendment
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865, after the conclusion of the American Civil War.The amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The 13th Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate on April 8,1864 -
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.They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era. -
fourteenth amendment
In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”In all, the amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in legislative process and were amalgamated into a single amendment. -
fifteenth admendment
The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870.Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads: “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.” -
atlanta braves
After spending 77 years in Boston, Massachusetts, and 13 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Braves moved to Atlanta to begin the 1966 major league baseball season. The move made the Atlanta Braves the first major league professional sports team to call the Deep South its home. Citizens of the city welcomed their new team with a downtown parade. On April 12, 1966, the Braves played their first regular season game in Atlanta Stadium before a sellout crowd of more than 50,000 -
international cotton exposition
Atlanta held its first exposition, named the International Cotton Exposition, in Oglethorpe Park in 1881.The city then had fewer than 40,000 residents."international" was the display of cotton plants from around the world. Nevertheless, Atlantans were eager to host the 1881 exposition to promote investment and to help the city toward its goal of becoming an industrial center. Although attendance was lower than expected (fewer than 200,000 in paid attendance during its two-and-a-half-month run), -
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world war 1
Georgia played a significant role during America's participation in World War I. 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. -
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.Although Vinson represented a landlocked district, he secured a seat on the Naval Affairs Committee in 1917. . Convinced that increased spending for national defense was absolutely necessary, he believed this commitee would provide a arena to express his views. -
richard russell
Richard russell served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator,governor of georgia and a U.S. senator. russell helped to maintain fifteen military installations; more than 25 research facilities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Russell Agricultural Research Center; and federal funding for development and construction -
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the great depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic failure in the history of the Western industries.n 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. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. -
eugene talmadge
Eugene Talmadge served as governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943. His personality and actions polarized voters into Talmadge and anti-Talmadge factions in the state's one-party politics of that era. His death in 1946 touched off the unprecedented "three governors controversy." -
agricultural adjustment act
The intent of the AAA was to restore the purchasing power of American farmers to pre-World War I levels. The money to pay the farmers for cutting back production by about 30 percent was raised by a tax on companies that bought farm products and processed them into food and clothing.The AAA evened the balance of supply and demand for farm commodities so that prices would support a decent purchasing power for farmers. This concept was known as "parity." -
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the 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 other by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War.To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. -
civilian conservation corps
Established on March 31, 1933, the corps's job was to recruit unemployed young men for forestry, erosion control, flood prevention, and parks development. The president's goal was to enroll a quarter of a million men by July 1, 1933. In what is considered to be a miracle of cooperation, four government agencies worked together to turn Roosevelt's goal into reality. -
rural electrification
Although nearly 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity by the 1930s, only ten percent of rural dwellers did. private utility companies, who supplied electric power to most of the nation's consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads. Anyway, they said, most farmers, were too poor to be able to afford electricity. -
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. -
social security act
the social security act was an act for elderly or disabled people to still receive money while not at work.The Social Security Act is one of the truly momentous legislative accomplishments in United States history. Enacted in the throes of the Great Depression, it was a sweeping bill that generated an array of programs to aid numerous groups of Americans. The law got its title from the groundbreaking social insurance program designed to provide an income for retired workers aged 65 or older. -
william B. Hartsfield
william hartsfield was one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta.
William B. Hartsfield served as mayor of Atlanta for six terms 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 people to a huge population of one million.He is known for developing Atlanta into the the place that it is today and with building its image. -
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world war 2
Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, world War 2 was the 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. -
pearl harbor
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 almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
1946 governor's race
Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, was one of the more bizarre political spectacles in the annals of American politics. In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters found a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in 1947. When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, said the office of governor, and the outgoing governor. -
atlanta hawks
the 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 Braves and the Falcons as professional sports teams in Georgia. Former Hawks stars include Dominique Wilkins, Pete "Pistol Pete" Maravich, Mookie Blaylock, Dikembe Mutombo, Moses Malone, and legendary head coach Lenny Wilkens. -
herman talmadge
Herman Talmadge served as governor of Georgia 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 during a time of great political change in the nation as well. As a member of the southern bloc of the Senate, Talmadge was a staunch opponent of civil rights movement -
martin luther king jr
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. King was assassinated in April 1968, and continues to be remembered as one of the most lauded African-American leaders in history, often referenced by his 1963 speech, "I Have a Dream." -
brown v. board of education
in the brown v. board of education black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races. The white and black schools approached equality in terms of buildings, curricula, qualifications, and teacher salaries. -
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 physical and economic growth and with maintaining peaceful 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 integration. -
sibley commision
In 1960 governor ernest was 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. -
student non-violent coordinating commitee
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The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches. In the wake of the early sit-ins at lunch counters closed to blacks, which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. -
the albany movement
ccording to traditional accounts the Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961 when hundreds of black protesters, including himself, were arrested in one week. -
march on washington
In August 1963 the civil rights movement staged its largest gathering ever, with as many as 250,000 participants at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington, D.C.. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States. -
civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race , color and religion is considfered as a great legislative movement.First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson.n subsequent years, Congress expanded the act and also passed additional legislation aimed at bringing equality. -
civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. -
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 the Falcons have become a big addition to atlanta's sports culture. Now playing at the Georgia Dome, the Falcons join the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks as professional sporting attractions in Georgia. -
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.ackson 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.In 1990, following the mayorship of Andrew Young. -
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jimmy carter in georgia
The election of Plains native Jimmy Carter to the U.S. presidency in 1976 brought members of his immediate and extended family into the public eye.Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term, 1977-81.After being defeated in the presidential election of 1980, he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta. -
andrew young
Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been a great impact of the development of Atlanta's reputation as an international city.Young was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 and as mayor of Atlanta in 1981. -
hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the students who desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961, returned in 1992 to speak at the first annual Holmes-Hunter lecture. Holmes, a prominent orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta until his death in 1995, was named the first African American member of the university foundation's board of trustees in 1983. -
lester maddox
The political and social change in Georgia during the 1960s was 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. -
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1996 olympic games
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.
The opening ceremony on July 19, 1996, attracted a capacity crowd of 83,000 to the Olympic Stadium for a display honoring southern culture and the one-hundredth anniversary of the modern Olympic movement. -
1956 state flag
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The current Georgia state flag was the state's third in twenty-seven months. The new flag features the state coat of arms, surrounded by thirteen stars, which represent the original American colonies.
State Flag, 2004
May 8, 2003, Governor Sonny signed legislation creating a new state flag for Georgia. The new banner became a big impact immediately, giving Georgia its 3rd state flag in only 27 months a national record. Georgia also leads the nation in the number and variety of different flag
