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GA Studies People
8th Grade GA Studies People (Milestone Review)
Term | Definition |
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"Georgia on My Mind", blind, musician | Ray Charles |
1st African American to play pro sports | Jackie Robinson |
Georgia's only President, won Nobel Prize | Jimmy Carter |
youngest to win Nobel Prize, civil rights | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
wrote Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
Coca Cola | Doc Pemberton |
poet, "The Song of the Chattahoochee" | Sidney Lanier |
wrote in dialect, Brer Rabbit | Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) |
Girl Scouts | Juliette Gordon Low |
discovered ether, operated in 1920s | Dr. Crawford Long |
Vice President (VP) of Confederacy from Georgia | Alexander Stephens |
first African American mayor of Atlanta | Maynard Jackson |
worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, United Nations (UN) Ambassador, mayor of Atlanta | Andrew Young |
first African American students to attend University of Georgia (UGA) | Hunter and Holmes |
Atlanta mayor, airport is named after him | William Hartsfield |
US Senator for 24 years, expert on armed forces | Sam Nunn |
Atlanta mayor, worked against racism, established MARTA, brought Braves to Atlanta | Ivan Allen |
slave, richest African American man in Atlanta, Atlanta Insurance | Alonzo Herndon |
first woman US Senator, served for one day | Rebecca Felton |
"offensive" baseball player, "Georgia peach" | Ty Cobb |
invented cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
TNT, CNN, TBS, owns Braves, entrepreneur, millionaire | Ted Turner |
African American educator, President of Atlanta Baptist College | John Hope |
Governor and Senator | Herman Talmadge |
Georgia Governor, 18 year olds got right to vote | Ellis Arnall |
Civil War Governor of Georgia | Joe Brown |
served as President for 12 years (3 terms, elected for 4 terms, but died before he could serve) | Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) |
Jewish, convicted of killing 13 year old girl in a pencil factory, hanged by Knights of Mary Phagan | Leo Franks |
spokesman of the "New South", editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Grady County (Cairo) named after him | Henry Grady |
Georgia's longest Congressman, wanted / supported a two-ocean Navy, strong military supporter | Carl Vinson |