Crossword: Post-WWII

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  1. 4. Major Atlanta transportation system started under Ivan Allen Jr.
  2. 6. Controversy involving three men claiming to be governor
  3. 7. Minister who challenged the white primary
  4. 8. Airport originally called Candler Field
  5. 11. Son of Eugene Talmadge who became governor during the controversy
  6. 14. Georgia governor who enforced the end of the white primary
  7. 15. Program that helped World War II veterans go to college
  8. 16. Georgia governor elected in 1946 who died before taking office
  9. 17. Highway loop built around Atlanta under Ivan Allen Jr
  10. 18. Practice that kept African Americans from voting in Democratic primaries
Down
  1. 1. Lieutenant governor who claimed he should be governor in 1947
  2. 2. The population shift in Georgia after WWII as people moved from rural farm areas to cities (rural → urban)
  3. 3. NAACP leader involved in ending the white primary
  4. 5. Machines like tractors and reapers that reduced farm labor needs
  5. 9. Supreme Court ruling that ended the white primary in Georgia
  6. 10. Atlanta mayor who helped start MARTA and brought pro sports to Atlanta
  7. 12. Insect that destroyed much of Georgia’s cotton crop
  8. 13. Mayor known as the “Father of Aviation”