The ______ refers to three powerful and influential Georgia politicians, all members of the Democratic Party, in the post-Reconstruction Era: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John Brown Gordon. These three men occupied positions as Governor of Georgia and Senators from Georgia between 1872 and 1890 and exercised dominance over the state politics during this era, although the extent to which the three acted as a cohesive group has been debated.

was an attack by armed mobs of white Americans against African Americans in ___ which began the evening of September 22 and lasted through September 24, 1906. The events were reported by newspapers around the world, including the French Le Petit Journal which described the "lynchings in the USA" and the "massacre of Negroes in __," the Aberdeen Press and Journal under the headline "___," and the London Evening Standard under the headlines "Anti-Negro Riots" and "Outrages in __." The final death toll of the conflict is unknown and disputed, but officially at least 25 African Americans and two whites died. Unofficial reports ranged from 10–100 black Americans killed during the riots. According to the Atlanta History Center, some black Americans were hanged from lamposts; others were shot, beaten or stabbed to death. They were pulled from street cars and attacked on the street; white mobs invaded black neighborhoods, destroying homes and businesses.

Violence was used against African Americans to keep them from voting and using the rights they had as citizens of the United States. Lynchings were one of the ways that others used to keep African Americans from voting. A group of people called the Ku Klux Klan went through out the South terrorizing African Americans that tried to vote or use any of the rights they gained in the 14th amendment to the Constitution. The group burned African-American churches, abducted African-Americans and several other cruel things.

He was Atlanta’s first black millionaire and the wealthiest black person at the time of his death. He was born into slavery in Walton County on June 26, 1858. Like many emancipated slaves, His family engaged in sharecropping to earn a living. He exhibited an entrepreneurial spirit. He spent his spare time peddling peanuts, homemade molasses, and axle grease to earn money to support the family. He learned how to be a barber and opened his own barber shop in Jonesboro.

He was an American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. He encouraged the industrialization of the South. He has been accused of preaching white supremacy, though Atlanta journalists including Norman Shavin and Bruce Galphin in their history of the city, Atlanta: Triumph of a People, never describe him that way. Rather, Shavin and Galphin wrote: "He was a civic promoter, a political strategist and an eloquent platform speaker who brilliantly captivated Northerners and Southerners alike as he envisioned a great future for his region while loving the memory of the old South." Atlanta journalist Frederick Allen, in his book Atlanta Rising, described him as a visionary. Comments definitively labeling him a racist led to desecration in June 2020 of the family grave site in Atlanta. He was the father-in-law of Federal Reserve Chairman Eugene Robert Black and grandfather of banker and World Bank President Eugene R. Black Sr.

_____ was an American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia. His trial, conviction, and appeals attracted national attention. His lynching two years later, in response to the commutation of his death sentence, became the focus of social, regional, political, and racial concerns, particularly regarding antisemitism. Today, the consensus of researchers on the subject holds that Frank was wrongly convicted and Jim Conley was likely the actual murderer.

He was born a slave in Virginia. He learned to read and write while working as a houseboy. After the Civil War he went on to study to be a teacher in Hampton, Virginia. In 1881 he was appointed president of the Tuskegee Institute, a university for the education of African Americans in vocational programs like teaching, farming and other trades that were needed in rural Alabama and the larger South. He was dedicated to the pursuit of self-reliance.

Remain controversial. World War I began in the Balkans on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, leaving 17 million dead and 20 million wounded. Scholars looking at the long term seek to explain why two rival sets of powers came into conflict by 1914. They look at such factors as political, territorial and economic competition; militarism, a complex web of alliances and alignments; imperialism, the growth of nationalism; and the power vacuum created by the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Other important long-term or structural factors that are often studied include unresolved territorial disputes, the perceived breakdown of the European balance of power, convoluted and fragmented governance, the arms races of the previous decades, and military planning.

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. It planned to show the progress made since the city's destruction during the Battle of Atlanta and new developments in cotton production. It demonstrated the rebirth of Atlanta and the South by announcing an end to the Reconstruction Era and the sectional hostilities that had plagued the nation for several decades.

______ system was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962. Contents. History. Though the county unit system had informally been used since 1898, it was formally enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917.

He was born in Massachusetts. He became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895. He then became a professor at Atlanta University in 1897. He believed that African Americans needed to protest the social and political system immediately and demand social equality. He renounced Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise Speech” and stated only action would bring change.

____ was a huge help towards WW1. They did a lot of things for America and the war. ____ was home of a prison that imprisoned a German submarine crew, which was located outside of ____. Military installations were a major factor in WW1. _____ had a textile mills that made fabric for military uniforms.

He was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s He championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland, and the Democratic Party. He was the nominee for vice president with Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896 on the Populist ticket.

______ were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period. ______ were enforced until 1965.

His father was a Scottish-born immigrant and his mother was a free African American woman born in Georgia. Although Georgia law prohibited interracial marriages, Hope's parents lived openly as husband and wife until his father's death in 1876. He was an educator, Civil Rights leader and a social reformer in Atlanta.

She was an American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician who became the first woman to serve in the US Senate, although she served for only one day. She was the most prominent woman in Georgia in the Progressive Era, and was honored by appointment to the Senate. She was sworn in on November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours. At 87 years, nine months, and 22 days old, she was the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate. She was the only woman to have served as a Senator from Georgia until the 2020 appointment of Kelly Loeffler. Her husband William Harrell Felton was a member of the United States House of Representatives and Georgia House of Representatives and she ran his campaigns. She was a prominent society woman; an advocate of prison reform, women's suffrage and educational modernization; a white supremacist and slave owner; and a woman who spoke vigorously in favor of lynching. Numan Bartley wrote that by 1915 she "was championing a lengthy feminist program that ranged from prohibition to equal pay for equal work.

163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". The decision legitimized the many state laws re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction Era.

She was a community organizer, reformer and social activist. She was more radical than her peers. In the era of Booker T. Washington, when accommodation was more accepted than confrontation, she was headstrong and demanding. However, it was her social and economic position as the middle-class wife of a university professor that afforded her the authority to lead and to confront racism.