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  1. 2. founder of the girl scouts
  2. 5. first to use the phrase "New South". He was an editor/part owner of the Atlanta Constitution and started the Atlanta Ring. Died from Pneumonia. Wrote the speech "The Funeral"
  3. 9. populist and politician who supported the Farmers Alliance. He got elected by the U.S. House of Representatives and ran for president and vice president.
  4. 12. in the court case fighting for separate but equal to become a law
  5. 14. He was a pharmacist who invented Coca Cola as a medicine.
  6. 15. born as a free black georgian because her father had saved money to buy their freedom. She started the Haines Normal and Technical School in Augusta and served as a principal for 50 years. Started the Augusta chapter of the NAACP
  7. 16. 1st black government official elected. He was an african american preacher and chaplain in the US Army during the civil war.
  8. 17. believed 'educate now, protest now'. Wrote "The Souls of Black Folk". He was born free and taught at Atlanta University
  9. 18. a surviving civil war soldier who created the first rocking chairs
  10. 20. civil rights leader in the New South and the first african american to be a college president in GA.
  11. 21. believed 'educate now, protest later'. He was born a slave and wrote the speech "5 Fingers, 1 Hand," and also wrote "Up From Slavery. He was a writer and an african american civil rights leader
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  1. 1. immigrant and entrepreneur who had Rich's department store retail chain
  2. 3. african american who started/ran the Freedmen's Bureau in GA. He wanted to create a 'colorblind society'.
  3. 4. progressive president who started the NCAA
  4. 6. Progressive about technology and Conservative about civil rights. He had a stutter and was a white newspaperman who wrote stories. Known for writing dialects.
  5. 7. died from tuberculosis at age 36. Was a U.S. Marshal in the Wild West and won the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
  6. 8. governor of georgia during the civil war and part of the Bourbon Triumvirate.
  7. 10. became the owner of Jekyll Island in the late 1870's with the millionare's club.
  8. 11. writer and politician who served in the U.S. Senate for a day. She was for women's rights
  9. 13. wrote the famous poem, "Thar's More in the Man Than Thar is in the Land".
  10. 19. first african american millionare in America who owned the Crystal Palace.