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80th Georgia General Assembly
The 80th Georgia General Assembly began in Atlanta, Georgia in early 1869. This was the first session after the seat of government was moved from Milledgeville, Georgia Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon and bordered on the east by the Oconee River. The rapid current of the river here made this an attractive location to bu ... following the Georgia Constitution of 1868. A new capitol building had yet to be built so sessions were held in the opera house on Marietta Street rented from H.I. Kimball. The new General Assembly contained 153 House members and 44 Senators. It was the first General Assembly in Georgia history to have African-American members. All of the African-American men were temporarily expelled by the General Assembly by September 1868, and were reinstated by Act of Congress in 1870 shortly before the end of the 1870 session. The 80th Assembly was succeeded by the 81st A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seal Of Georgia (U
The Great Seal of the State of Georgia is a device that has historically been used to authenticate government documents executed by the state of Georgia. The first great seal of the state was specified in the State Constitution of 1777, and its current form was adopted in 1799 with alterations in 1914. Its specifications are currently spelled out by statute. Description The original seal from 1777 was specified as such: "The great seal of this State shall have the following device: on one side of a scroll, whereon shall be engraved “The Constitution of the State of Georgia;” and the motto “Pro bono publico.” On the other side, an elegant house, and other buildings, fields of corn, and meadows covered with sheep and cattle; a river running through the same, with a ship under full sail, and the motto, “Deus nobis haec otia fecit.” On February 8, 1799 an Act of the Legislature stated the seal as "On the one side a view of the seashore with a ship bearing the flag of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Adkins
Joseph Adkins (February 5, 1815 – May 10, 1869) was a Minister (Christianity), minister and state senator in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia during the Reconstruction Era after the American Civil War. He was a Republican (Third Party System), Republican who represented Warren County, Georgia. He supported civil rights for African Americans and reported racially motivated violence by the Ku Klux Klan. He was murdered in May 1869, after having led a delegation to Washington, D.C. to obtain military protection against widespread acts of violence by the Klan. Background The Ku Klux Klan became violent in Georgia on or before March 30, 1868, when 30 members of the Klan killed white politician George Ashburn after he spoke at a public rally that day. The Klan spread across Georgia and by the fall 260 cases were filed of violence inflicted on blacks, but the court cases were denied by black people against whites. There were also instances where the Klan attacked Georgian Republicans, rega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McWhorter
Robert Ligon McWhorter (June 19, 1819 – May 20, 1908) was an American planter and politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1847 to 1861, and then switched to serving as a Republican in both houses of the Georgia General Assembly from 1868 to 1884. He was the first Republican to hold the seat of Speaker of the Georgia House. Early years McWhorter was born in the community of Bowling Green, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, the youngest of three sons born to Hugh McWhorter and Helena Ligon. His family owned a forty-acre homestead. After studying at Mercer University, McWhorter worked as a planter in Greene County and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1847, in which he served until the Civil War began in 1861. Military service Upon joining the Confederate Army, McWhorter organized Company C ("Dawson Grays") of the 3rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry regiment as Captain on April 24, 1861. He was elected Major and Assistant Qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Joiner
Philip Joiner was a delegate to the 1867 constitutional convention in Georgia and an elected representative to the Georgia Assembly in 1868. He and other African Americans were prohibited from taking office by their colleagues in the Georgia Assembly. Federal intervention in 1870 overruled the discriminatory exclusion, and Joiner would win re-election to a second term in office. A month after being barred from taking office he was a leader of a march from Albany, Georgia to Camilla, Georgia. Participants were shot at and attacked at the Republican campaign rally in Camilla, including by the sheriff. Joiner submitted his testimony on the event to the Freedmen Bureau's O.H. Howard. Many were killed and wounded in the attack on freedmen. It was commemorated 100 years after it happened as the Camilla massacre The Camilla massacre took place in Camilla, Georgia, on Saturday, September 19, 1868. African Americans had been given the right to vote in Georgia's 1868 state constitution, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiram Williams (politician) (1917–2003), American painter
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Hiram Williams may refer to: * Hank Williams (1923–1953), American singer-songwriter * Hiram D. Williams Hiram Draper Williams (February 11, 1917 – January 5, 2003) was an American painter and professor of art at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Williams was inducted into the Florida Artist Hall of Fame. His work is included in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romulus Moore
Reverend Romulus Moore (January 1818 - before 1888) was a politician and leader of the early civil rights movement after the American Civil War during the Reconstruction Era in the U.S. state of Georgia. An African American, Moore was elected to the state legislature in 1868. Moore was expelled from the legislature in 1868 along with other African Americans (Original 33) and reinstated in the Georgia General Assembly in 1870 by an Act of Congress. Reverend Moore was active in advocating the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Biography Childhood and call to the ministry The Rev. Romulus Moore was born a slave in Taliaferro County, Georgia, in January 1818. He was reared in the family of James Moore (white) and educated with Moore's children. Through his education, the Rev. Moore purchased his own freedom. The future Reverend Moore was a wild young man until 1860, when he met and married a Miss Mary Elenor Horton, a Christian woman. Once married, he changed his wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Richardson (politician)
Alfred Richardson (1837?–1872) was a member of the Georgia Assembly in the U.S. State of Georgia, representing Clarke County. An African American, he entered government service after the U.S. Civil War during the Reconstruction era. Richardson faced hostility, intimidation, and physical attacks representing Clarke County. Richardson survived two shooting attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. Conoly Hester Athens Online In 1872 Richardson testified to a congressional committee that it was not safe for him to go home so he was staying in Athens, Georgia, and that many other "Colored" people had been forced to flee their farms in fear. He also spoke about being attacked and shot at at his house by men in disguise and said that he had been threatened, told of many instances of whippings, and that fellow "Colored" people were told that they should vote for Democrats or not vote at all. Richardson and Madison Davis Madison "Mat" Davis (September 27, 1833 – August 20, 1902) was a slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Davis
Madison "Mat" Davis (September 27, 1833 – August 20, 1902) was a slave who became a member of the Georgia Assembly representing Clarke County, Georgia and the first African American postmaster in Athens, Georgia, after being emancipated. He was active in Republican Party politics. Early years: enslaved carriage-maker to emancipated delegate Davis was born into slavery and was owned by a carriage maker. After the U.S. Civil War he was freed from slavery at age 31. He was a delegate to Georgia's constitutional drafting convention in 1868. Representative of Georgia In 1868, Davis and Alfred Richardson, also a former slave, were elected to the Georgia House of Representatives from Clarke County. Later the same year, 25 of 29 African Americans were ejected from office after Georgia's legislature determined that African Americans had no protected right to serve in public office. Four more were investigated by a committee to determine their heritage and determine whether they we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Claiborne
Malcolm Claiborne (c. 1838–July 25, 1870), sometimes spelled Claiborn, was an elected representative in the Georgia Legislature. An African American, he along with 25 of 29 African Americans elected in Georgia in 1868 were denied seats by their white colleagues. After federal intervention, they were allowed to take office in 1870. Claiborne was shot and killed the same year in a dispute with the messenger sent by the Georgia House, Moses H. Bentley, who had been a black delegate to the Constitutional Convention, in a heated dispute over the pay of House pages. According to the '' Atlanta Historical Bulletin'', Claiborne was shot and killed on Marietta Street near Forsyth Street, after a heated argument where Claiborne accused Bentley of wrongly firing a Black page and replacing him with a White page. A contemporary report from 1870 stated that Claiborne was killed in the capitol building. Bentley fired three shots at Claiborne, with one striking him in the chest, while th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macon, Georgia
Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. Situated near the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is located southeast of Atlanta and lies near the geographic center of the state of Georgia—hence the city's nickname, Central Georgia, "The Heart of Georgia". Macon had a population of 157,346 in the year 2020. It is the principal city of the Macon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 233,802 in 2020. Macon is also the largest city in the Macon–Warner Robins Combined Statistical Area (CSA), a larger trading area with an estimated 420,693 residents in 2017; the CSA abuts the Atlanta metropolitan area just to the north. In a 2012 referendum, voters approved the consolidation of the governments of the City of Macon and Bibb County, Georgia, Bibb County, thereby making Macon Georgia's fourth-largest city (just after Augusta, Georgia, Augusta). The two g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834 – May 8, 1915) was an American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War, he worked to establish new A.M.E. congregations among African Americans in Georgia. Born free in South Carolina, Turner had learned to read and write and became a Methodist preacher. He joined the AME Church in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1858, where he became a minister. Founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 19th century, the A.M.E. Church was the first independent black denomination in the United States. Later Turner had pastorates in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, DC. In 1863 during the American Civil War, Turner was appointed by the US Army as the first African-American chaplain in the United States Colored Troops. After the war, he was appointed to the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia. He settled in Macon and was elected to the state legi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walker Brock
Walker or The Walker may refer to: People *Walker (given name) *Walker (surname) *Walker (Brazilian footballer) (born 1982), Brazilian footballer Places In the United States *Walker, Arizona, in Yavapai County *Walker, Mono County, California *Walker, Illinois *Walker, Iowa *Walker, Kansas *Walker, Louisiana *Walker, Michigan *Walker, Minnesota *Walker, Missouri *Walker, West Virginia *Walker, Wisconsin *Walker Brook, a stream in Minnesota *Walker Charcoal Kiln, Arizona *Walker Lake (other), several lakes *Walker Pass, California *Walker River, Nevada *Walker Township (other), several places Other places *Walker, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada *Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England *Walker Island (Northern Tasmania), Tasmania, Australia *Walker Island (Southern Tasmania), Tasmania, Australia *Walker Mountains, in Antarctica * Walker (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon In arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Walker (''Star Wars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
