U.S. Presidents
I enforced Indian Removal Act of 1830 I told John Marshall that he could enforce his own decision in Worcester vs. Georgia
Andrew Jackson
I that "The time for racial discrimination is OVER!" I pushed for education reform, as I had done as a state senator and started the first Georgia Kindergarten program.
Jimmy Carter
I served 3 terms as Atlanta's mayor I was the first black mayor of a southern city, Atlanta I made huge improvements to the Atlanta airport, which now partly has my name on it
Maynard Jackson
Stated that segregation was illegal Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson Georgia changed its state flag in 1956 because it was angry at having to enforce this
Brown v. Board of Education
Laws designed to enforce segregation in the south were called this
Jim Crow Laws
I got Israel and Egypt to sign a peace agreement called the Camp David Accords I got the Soviet Union to sign the SALT II agreement to stop making nuclear weapons I was unable to get American hostages out of Iran, which probably caused me to lose the 1980 Presidential election
Jimmy Carter
I was elected governor four times, and strongly opposed President Roosevelt's New Deal because I thought it hurt rural farmers in Georgia. I lost UGA's accreditation due to my white supremacist ideology
Eugene Talmadge
I am the only 6 term mayor of Atlanta My nickname was "The Father of Aviation" Atlanta gained the nickname of "The City to Busy to Hate" while I was the mayor
William Hartsfield
Declared the Cherokee were a separate nation and did not have to follow Georgia's rules Chief Justice was John Marshall President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce it
Worcester v. Georgia
This early Civil Rights leader gave a speech called the Atlanta Compromise He pushed accommodation, which meant not to fight for civil rights but accept them at a slow and gradual rate He stressed working and education
Booker T. Washington
I was elected in 1860 with only 39.8% of the popular vote Southern states seceded when I was elected I freed the slaves in the rebellious states with the Emancipation Proclamation after the Battle of Antietam
Abraham Lincoln
In 1946, Georgia was humiliated across the country because of their inability to choose a governor, after the death of Eugene Talmadge. This will be known in Georgia history as the .......
Three Governor's Controversy
I ripped down signs in City Hall which read "Colored" and "White" I brought major league sports to Atlanta (Braves, Hawks, and Falcons)
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Declared that segregation was legal Stated that the races could be separated as long as there were equal facilities for both
Plessy v. Ferguson
This word mean denying the right to vote. Some examples were the poll tax, the grandfather clause, the white primary, and the literacy test
Disfranchisement
I am the only President elected four times I lived part-time in Warm Springs, GA so I could ease the pain of polio I started New Deal programs based on Depression era Georgia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was a "cool" governor because I rode my bicycle backwards. I appointed more blacks to government jobs than all governors before me combined, which surprised many since I was racist and closed my own restaurant, the Pickrick, instead of integrating.
Lester Maddox
I was a two term mayor of Atlanta I am also known for being the first black Congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction I helped bring the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta
Andrew Young
Stated that a Missouri man was not free, even though a lower court had set him free Stated that this man was property and had no right to sue
Dred Scott
This word mean denying the right to vote. Some examples were the poll tax, the grandfather clause, the white primary, and the literacy test
disenfranchisement
Following the 13 colonies from gaining independence from Great Britain, this general became the first president of the United States
Georgia Washington
I coined the term "New South" after Reconstruction. I encouraged investors from the north to invest in businesses in the South. I also held three International Cotton Expositions in Atlanta
Henry Grady
A mayor of a city would be the head of which branch of government (think...head of a city, head of a state and head of our country)?
Executive Branch
A Jewish manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta is accused, with little evidence, of killing a 13 year old employee. He is later hanged by members of the Ku Klux Klan
Leo Frank
The most well-known civil rights leader. Got his start helping Rosa Parks in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. Won the Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King, Jr.