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| Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.He Helped Georgia by providing a peaceful way of protesting against segeration. |
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| Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American black minister, educator, sociologist, social activist and the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 to 1967. “It was Mays who held the job as King’s consigliere over the next fourteen years as the death threats against him grew more ominous and the public battles more dangerous.” |
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| She holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist. |
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| He successfully led efforts to restore accreditation to Georgia's institutions of higher learning. He reformed the state penal system, repealed the poll tax, lowered the voting age, revised the state constitution, established a teachers' retirement system, and paid off the long-existing state debt |
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| On January 7, 1974, Maynard Jackson, an ebullient, outspoken bond lawyer, became the first black—and at age 35 the youngest person ever—to be elected mayor of Atlanta. He also helped bring the Olympics to Atlanta in 1996. |
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| Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954.Talmadge was a staunch opponent of civil rights legislation, but he began to reach out to black voters in the 1970s. |
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| He is credited with developing Atlanta into the aviation powerhouse that it is today and with building its image as "the City Too Busy to Hate. The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was named in honor of him. |
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| Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating UGA. One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later. |
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| The tumultuous political and social change in Georgia during the 1960s yielded perhaps the state's most unlikely governor. He owned the Pickrick and closed down because he didn't serve blacks. |
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| Ivan Allen, Jr., was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the civil rights era of the 1960s. He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. |
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