Important People in Georgia History

Founder & governor of the Georgia colony

• Lyman Hall

• Elijah Clarke

• Andrew Young

• James Oglethorpe

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

• Booker T Washington

• Andrew Jackson

• WEB DuBois

• Martin Luther King Jr

Civil Rights activist. First African American since Reconstruction to be elected to Congress from Georgia. Mayor of Atlanta after Maynard Jackson.

• Maynard Jackson

• Lester Maddox

• Andrew Young

• Jimmy Carter

Head of the Urban League In Tampa became president of Morehouse College and is given credit for molding Martin Luther King, Jr. while he was his professor.

• WEB DuBois

• Benjamin Mays

• Booker T Washington

• Andrew Young

Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, called the "Voice of the New South", encouraged growth of industry in Georgia and especially Atlanta; organized Cotton Expos.

• Henry Grady

• Tom Watson

• Eugene Talmadge

• Herman Talmadge

Cherokee who created a writing system for the Cherokee language

• John Ross

• John Marshall

• Sequoyah

• Tomochichi

first two African-Americans to attend UGA

• William Few & Abraham Baldwin

• Jimmy Carter & Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Hamilton Holmes & Charlayne Hunter

• Maynard Jackson & Andrew Young

African American progressive who supported segregation and urged African Americans to better themselves economically to achieve equality. He was the president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

• Henry Grady

• Alonzo Herndon

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB DuBois

Chief of the Cherokee Nation during the Indian Removal Act. Fought and won Worchester vs. US, but was still forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears because Andrew Jackson would not support the court's decision.

• John Marshall

• John Ross

• William McIntosh

• Tomochichi

elected to the U.S congress, became known as a

champion of Georgia's farmers, led populist party in

Georgia. He sponsored and pushed through a law

providing for RFD-rural free delivery

• William B. Hartsfield

• Jimmy Carter

• Tom Watson

• John Marshall