As African Americans marched peacefully in response to their expulsion from elected office, more than a dozen were massacred near Albany, Georgia.
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Henry McNeal Turner addressed the Georgia Legislature on its decision to expel all Black representatives.
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Two young African American couples — one of the men a WWII veteran — were lynched near the Moore’s Ford Bridge.
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Black women in Atlanta who washed clothes for a living organized an effective Reconstruction era strike — with clear demands, strategic timing, and door-to-door canvassing.
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WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was murdered after casting his vote in the Georgia Democratic Primary.
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Athens-area Ku Klux Klan members shot and killed WWII veteran and DCPS assistant superintendent Lemuel Penn.
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A camp warden and guards shot dead seven prisoners being held at the Anguilla Prison in Georgia. The Anguilla Prison Massacre Quilt Project tells that story, drawing on records from the NAACP.
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Two hundred and eighty one Africans aboard The Antelope ship were brought to Savannah by the U.S. Treasury.
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Mary Turner, a young African American woman who was eight months pregnant, was lynched in Lowndes County, Georgia.
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Howard Zinn gave the commencement address at Spelman University, at the invitation of President Beverly Daniel Tatum.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a speech criticizing the Vietnam War and praising Muhammad Ali.
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A riot ensued after Louis Ruffin, an Army veteran, pulled out his gun to defend his family during an altercation between his father and two police officers.
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Howard Zinn debated Fulton Lewis III, a journalist and member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, on the question of “Shall the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?”
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During the Reconstruction Era, people emancipated from slavery searched for their loved ones throughout the United States and Canada. They often used "last seen" ads. This is one case of successful reunification.
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Four African Americans (including one minister and three farmers; one of the farmers was a woman) were lynched in Hamilton, Georgia.
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The Georgia State House of Representatives refused to seat elected state representative Julian Bond due to his public statements against the Vietnam War.
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Julian Bond was finally sworn in as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
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In 2021, two new Democratic lawmakers from Georgia were elected to the U.S. Senate, one of whom is only the 11th African American senator in U.S. history.
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Enacted in response to David Walker’s Appeal, this law criminalized the distribution of materials that could incite rebellion to slavery, reflecting fears of literacy empowering resistance.
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The Georgia Constitutional Convention was held with 33 African Americans and 137 white attendees.
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