Georgia Famous People

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Across
  1. 1. Bought Delta from his friend and made it what it is today
  2. 8. Inventor of Coca-Cola
  3. 9. Civil rights leader from Atlanta that won a Nobel Peace Prize
  4. 10. Invented Coca-Cola
  5. 11. Lawyer, writer, GA politician who supported the working class white or black
  6. 13. Black educator and political activist who supported segregation and Jim Crow
  7. 16. Born as a slave and became a sharecropper, and then a barber
  8. 21. Former Georgia governor and politician who was anti-New Deal
  9. 22. Yamacraw chief who befriended Oglethorpe
  10. 23. Only president to be from Georgia
  11. 24. Current governor of Georgia
  12. 25. Writer for the Atlanta Constitution, promoted the New South
Down
  1. 2. 1st African American mayor of Atlanta
  2. 3. British founder of the colony of Georgia
  3. 4. Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate, graduated from Princeton and became a lawyer
  4. 5. Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate, known as the head of the KKK in GA.
  5. 6. Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate, one of the most successful politicians in GA history.
  6. 7. Communicated for Tomochichi and Oglethorpe
  7. 12. Georgia lawyer who pushed the GA Platform
  8. 14. "Father of the Two Ocean Navy"
  9. 15. Former GA attorney, held the Sibley Commission
  10. 17. Creator of Chick-Fil-A
  11. 18. Black civil rights activist who disagreed with T. Washington
  12. 19. Worked for SCLC, former mayor of Atlanta, brought Olympics to Atlanta
  13. 20. Restaurant owner turned Georgia governor, segregationist.