Unit 8: Modern Georgia

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Georgia history Georgia studies Georgia farmers Franklin Delano Roosevelt seed technology fertilizer pesticides crop rotation University of Georgia agricultural extension agents Servicemen’s Readjustment Act G. I. Bill of Rights World War II synthetic fibers peach farm laborers food prices peanuts soy beans tobacco wheat poultry livestock cotton forestry acreage mechanization tenant farming population population change 1950 census black migration African Americans rural migrants Henry Grady General Motors Ford Atlanta urban postwar industrial growth Macon Savannah Marietta rural populations urban politicians baby boom agricultural technology business industry atomic bomb United Nations Cold War Soviet Union communism B-29 Bombers General Lucius Clay Korean War Berlin blockade Korea Japan North Korea South Korea Harry S. Truman Bell Aircraft labor unions Georgia politics black Georgians Ellis Arnall outside agitators discrimination black voters white primary poll tax Helen Mankin 1946 governor’s race county unit system democratic primary Eugene Talmadge democratic party republican Herman Talmadge Three Governor’s Controversy 3 governor’s controversy general assembly M. E. Thompson lieutenant governor Minimum Foundation Program for Education Act public education Marvin Griffin Ernest Vandiver civil rights massive resistance segregation public schools Gray v. Sanders Fourteenth Amendment plurality one person one vote Carl Sanders Reynolds v. Sims reapportion reapportionment rural-urban Leroy Johnson Lester Maddox Jimmy Carter Plains Benjamin Elijah Mays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Morehouse Pullman Lenox Square interstate highways Atlanta Airport I-75 Fulton Gwinnett Dekalb Cobb Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority MARTA Delta Airlines transportation southeast Lockheed Coca-Cola service industry public sector Ivan Allen Jr. Fort McPherson Emory University forward Atlanta stadiums Centers for Disease Control March on Washington civil rights movement colored civil rights commission equal opportunity Plessy v. Ferguson National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP Brown v. Board of Education separate but equal U.S. Supreme Court desegregate Hamilton Holmes integration Charlayne Hunter Sibley Commission public facilities Rosa Parks boycott Montgomery bus boycott Jackie Robinson Atlanta Constitution Ralph McGill Rosa Strickland negro letter from Birmingham Jail Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC Southern Christian Leadership Council SCLC Ralph David Abernathy sit-in Woolworth Julian Bond freedom rides Congress of Racial Equality CORE lunch counter Albany movement Eugene Bull Connor fire hoses unrest white supremacists I Have a Dream Nobel Peace Prize Civil rights Act of 1964 KKK Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States Little Rock Mississippi Alabama Dwight Eisenhower Grace Hamilton property voter registration Maynard Jackson mayor Voting Rights Act Selma W. W. Lane Black Power Malcolm X Black Panther Vietnam War Andrew Young draft guerilla war North Vietnam South Vietnam Dean Rusk Lyndon Johnson John Fitzgerald Kennedy aggression Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Richard Russell C-5A Galaxy Ku Klux Klan new state flag Georgia’s flag Julian Bond Pickrick Restaurant runoff Rosalynn Carter executive branch embargo inflation foreign oil Sun Belt George Busbee Zell Miller Joe Frank Harris Quality Basic Education Act HOPE scholarship Roy Barnes flaggers Sonny Perdue Nathan Deal peanut brigade human rights hostage crisis Iran Ronald Reagan Habitat for Humanity Carter Presidential Center metropolitan statistical areas job opportunity Hispanic latino Centennial Park 1996 Summer Olympics 9/11 September 11 2001 terrorist recession military bases Spaghetti Junction High Museum of Art cultural heritage multicultural ethnic group entrepreneur entrepreneurship sports movies entertainment visual arts performing arts literature folk art philanthropy Atlanta History Center historic preservation global economy film industry tourism population growth digital textbook GPB Georgia Public Broadcasting primary source secondary source economy

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Music History-Social Science History

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Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12

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Unit 8: Modern Georgia

The Georgia Studies digital textbook tells the story of Georgia—its history, culture, and geography—in the context of American history and government. The information is presented digitally with interactive elements, videos, quizzes, discussion prompts, and more.

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PBS Learning Media