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- With about 9,000 residents in 1860, Atlanta grew to become Georgia's largest city by 1880, with a population surpassing 37,000.
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Jul 28, 2005 · Soon Charleston, South Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; and other cities would link with Atlanta, prompting that city to initiate a campaign for becoming Georgia’s next capital. The first legislative proposal to make Atlanta the capital came in December 1847, but the General Assembly defeated the measure by a 68-55 vote.
Briefly in 1867, Congress assumed control of Reconstruction in the South, with Georgia and other Southern states placed again under military authority. Major General John Pope was placed in command of Georgia on April 1, 1867, and shortly afterwards took up his duties in Atlanta.
Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city by 1880. Disenfranchisement of black people
Atlanta became the state capital in 1868. As it recovered from the war’s destruction, it began to epitomize the spirit of the “New South” in seeking reconciliation with the North. It was the home of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the first major Southern city to elect a black mayor (1970).
Sep 25, 2009 · Established in 1732, with settlement in Savannah in 1733, Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded. Its formation came a half-century after the twelfth British colony, Pennsylvania, was chartered (in 1681) and seventy years after South Carolina’s founding (in 1663).
In the 1880 Census, Atlanta had surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city. Beginning in the 1880s, Henry W. Grady, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper, promoted Atlanta to potential investors as a city of the "New South" that would be based upon a modern economy and less reliant on agriculture.
May 27, 1999 · In 1973 Atlanta became the first major city in the South to elect an African American mayor, Maynard Jackson. His election came a decade after a previous mayor had built a barrier, sometimes called Atlanta’s Berlin Wall, that was intended to prevent Black residents from moving into a white neighborhood. (It was removed after a court ruled it ...
