Herman Talmadge
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The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
What position for the state of Georgia did Herman Talmadge have and for how long?
What promise did Herman Talmadge make that he was unable to keep?
What did Herman Talmadge oppose and why?
In 1949, what Act did the General Assembly pass and what was the purpose of the Act?
What was passed in 1951 and why?
What did Herman Talmadge do after leaving office in 1956? How long did he stay in that
position?
How did Herman Talmadge impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?
Lester Maddox
Your presentation should include:
The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
What position for the state of Georgia did Lester Maddox have and for how long?
What did Maddox do before he was elected to this position and why was he famous?
What was “People’s Day”?
What did Maddox do that was greater than all other men on his position combined?
Name four things that he did while in office.
How did Lester Maddox impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?
Ellis Arnall
Your presentation should include:
The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
What position for the state of Georgia did Ellis Arnall have and for how long?
What were the exact dates? What is significant about his term?
What happened in 1945 under the leadership of Arnall?
What was abolished by Arnall?
Georgia became the first state in the nation to do what? WHat was Arnall’s argument for
making this happen?
What issue did Arnall correct from Eugene Talmadge’s term in office? How did he do this?
How did Ellis Arnall impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?
Maynard Jackson
Your presentation should include:
The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
What position for the city of Atlanta did Maynard Jackson have and for how long?
What was significant about him being elected into this position? (2 things)
What is Jackson’s educational background?
What did he do before his elected position?
What was one of his final legacies to the city of Atlanta?
He was a supporter of the arts, an example of this is shown through his establishment of
what?
How did Maynard Jackson impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?
Benjamin Mays
Your presentation should include:
The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
When, where and to whom was Benjamin Mays born?
In 1940, to what position was Mays appointed and where?
Who thought of Mays to be a mentor? When did they meet and what two things did he
specifically refer to him as?
When he retired from Morehouse College, what office did he hold in the city of Atlanta?
How is he remembered in recognition of his outstanding contributions to education?
How did Benjamin Mays impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your presentation should include:
The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
When and where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born? What did his grandfather and father do?
What is Dr. King’s Ph.D. in and who was he married to?
What interested Dr. King about Gandhi’s approach?
What group did residents of Montgomery, Alabama, appoint him to be a leader of and it was a
result of what incident?
What does the SCLC stand for? What was Dr. King’s role in it?
What two awards did Dr. King earn in the 1960’s for recognition of his civil rights work?
How did Martin Luther King, Jr. impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?
William B. Hartsfield
Your presentation should include:
The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
What position for the city of Atlanta did William B. Hartsfield have and for how long?
What were the exact dates?
What issue is attributed to the leadership of Hartsfield and for which he is best
remembered ?
Name two places in the city that Hartsfield integrated and give the years it happened.
In 1961, Hartsfield joined which famous civil rights leader to do what?
What did Hartsfield do in 1948 that was significant to Atlanta?
How did William B. Hartsfield impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Your presentation should include:
The answers to the following questions.
A picture or drawing significant to your person.
What position for the city of Atlanta did Ivan Allen, Jr. have and for how long? What years?
What was the first thing he did when he took office?
Name three professional sports teams that came to Atlanta during his time in office and in
what years years did they arrive.
What major improvement in Atlanta was voted down during Allen’s term and what does the
name stand for?
What department did Allen integrate?
How did Ivan Allen, Jr. impact Georgia socially, economically and politically?