Modern Georgia
Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A war that takes place between two groups in the same country. America had one of these from 1861-1865.
Civil War
This was a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote.
Poll Tax
This insect destroyed cotton crops in Georgia by laying its eggs in the cotton bolls.
Boll Weevil
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
Dred Scott Case (1857)
Primary election where only whites could vote.
White Primary
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote after the civil war
The 15th Ammendment
The mass migration of six million Black people to the North between the years 1910-1970.
Great Migration
These laws were named after a racist black caricature and denied Black people rights in the south and maintained segregation from the end of reconstruction until after Brown vs. Board in 1954.
Jim Crow Laws
This Ammedment gave African American men the right to vote after the civil war.
15th Ammendment
This Supreme Court cases struck down the policy of separate but equal and mandated the desegregation of public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Atlanta’s longest serving mayor who was instrumental in bring aviation to the city and worked with civil rights leaders during the civil rights movement.
William Hartsfield
Managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the idea of a “New South.”
Henry Grady
This was a surprise attack on an American Naval base in Hawaii by Japanese forces; resulted in the U.S. entering WWII.
Pearl Harbor
This organization's purpose was to provide aid to former slaves and poor whites during reconstruction.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This Mayor of Atlanta brought three major sports teams to Atlanta (Braves, Falcons, and Hawks) and was the first to refer to Atlanta as "a city too busy to hate."
Ivan Allen Jr.
Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; sharecroppers were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop.
Sharecroppers
Three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years were reffered to by this name.
The Bourbon Triumvirate
The goal of this movement was to end all forms of discrimination in Albany Georgia. It was founded by members of the NAACP, SNCC, and SCLC.
The Albany Movement
Infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp.
Andersonville
Investigation by lawyer John Sibley to determine what should be done about integration in the state; though 60% of Georgians claimed they would rather close the public schools than integrate, Sibley recommended that public schools desegregate on a limited basis.
Sibley Commission
These were the three reasons for Georgia's founding as stated in the Charter of 1732
Philanthropy, Economics, and Defense
This Supreme Court case established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation.
Plessy V. Ferguson
Four time Georgia governor that fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.
Eugene Talmadge
An agreement between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850