People of Georgia
This Atlanta businessman and founder of Atlanta Life Insurance Company became one of the first Black millionaires in the South.
Alonzo Herndon
This movement in 1961–62 was one of the first mass protest campaigns of the Civil Rights era, though it achieved limited immediate results. MLK regarded it as a failure, as activists attempted to desegregate too many things at once.
The Albany Movement
This cotton-destroying pest devastated Georgia's agricultural economy in the early 20th century, forcing many farmers off the land.
Boll Weevil
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South following Reconstruction, requiring separate facilities for Black and white citizens.
Jim Crow Laws
The Japanese attack on this U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
This educator founded Tuskegee Institute and advocated for economic self-reliance for Black Americans. He also believed that segregation would end over th ecourse of many years.
Booker T. Washington
This organization, led by Martin Luther King Jr., coordinated nonviolent protests across the South during the Civil Rights Movement.
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
This trio of post-Civil War Georgia politicians — Gordon, Colquitt, and Brown — dominated the state, promoting industrialization and reconciliation with the North. They differentiate themselves as being part of the bourgeoisie class.
Bourbon Triumvirate
This 1954 Supreme Court ruling declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown vs. Board of Education
This FDR program used federal spending and work programs to combat unemployment and poverty during the Great Depression.
The New Deal
This scholar and co-founder of the NAACP argued that Black Americans should demand full civil and political rights immediately
This student-led organization founded in 1960 organized sit-ins and other nonviolent direct actions across the South.
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
The 1895 event organized by Henry Grady's successors to showcase Atlanta's industrial and agricultural progress to Northern investors.
International Cotton Expo
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine, legally permitting racial segregation
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This New Deal program brought electricity to rural areas of Georgia and the South that private companies had ignored.
REA - Rural Electrification Act
This Atlanta mayor, who served from 1937 to 1961, guided the city through desegregation and helped secure the 1996 Olympic bid foundation. — Who is William B. Hartsfield?
William B. Hartsfield
The 1963 gathering in Washington D.C. where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech
The March on Washington
This Marietta, Georgia plant produced B-29 bombers during World War II and was a major driver of wartime industrial growth in the state.
Bell Bomber Plant
This Georgia governor, known for his staunch segregationist views, was elected four times and represented rural white voter opposition to racial progress.
Eugene Talmadge
This 1941 U.S. law allowed the U.S. to supply Allied nations with military equipment before formally entering the war.
Lend-Lease Act
This mayor of Atlanta in the 1960s supported the Civil Rights Movement and helped the city avoid the violent resistance seen elsewhere in the South. He also brought the Falcons, Hawks, and Braves sports teams to Atlanta.
Ivan Allen Jr.
These voter registration barriers, requiring prospective voters to read and interpret complex texts, were used to disenfranchise Black voters in the South.
Literacy Tests
This is the financial gain a business earns after all expenses are paid — a key concept in understanding industrialization.
Profit
This Georgia commission, convened in 1960, was tasked with gauging public opinion on school desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education. It found that 2/3 of Georgians would rather close schools than allow black students to attend
The Sibley Commission
Georgia congressman Carl Vinson championed building this kind of naval force — capable of fighting in both the Atlantic and Pacific simultaneously.
two-ocean navy