Talk:History of Georgia (U.S. state)

County count

"The original eight counties of Georgia were Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, and Richmond."

Are we missing a county?

— DLJessup (talk) 22:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Yep. Wilkes County, Georgia was left out.170.140.124.75 18:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

- Dont forget Gwinnet It's the bestest

Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson

Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most famous people who grew up in Georgia, Martin fought for racial equality, which is why blacks can now go to the same schools as whites, drink from the same fountin, shop in the same stores, and sit in the same theatres. Many other people tried to accomplish such, none were successful until Martin Luther King Jr. came along.

Jackie Robinson was the first black person allowed to play major league baseball, he also was born in Georgia. Today, many black people are involed in major sports such as baseball. Jackie Robinson fought to play in what he loved, baseball. He dreamed of playing in the major leagues, which is exactly what he did.

People like these are leaders, not followers, they've tought us a lesson, be a leader and fight for what you believe in. Fought for the rights of african american people.

    Yes, Martin was the best man that ever fought for civil rights. Have you ever heard of Julian Bond? He was a leader too. Julian Bond

♥Smartie960♥ (Chatter Box) 21:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Boundaries

The article doesn't explain how the present western and southern boundaries were set. -- Beland 10:52, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

opinion or fact

"Ultimately, the colony was not founded by or for debtors, although the misconception of Georgia having been founded as a debtor or penal colony persists. "

this need to be backed up with a source

YO im a student of georgia history so tell me why did thay stop 3 classes to put in this crap thay took out shop computer resorsis and drama wich is for quiers eany way so tell me why thay did it  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.85.101.211 (talk) 21:38, 18 October 2007 (UTC) 

I don't know what that dude is talking about, but I would also like to see a citation for this statement. Less to validate it as much as to know a source to find elaborations on the claim. The word "misconception" itself denotes a lack of common knowledge and demands sourcing. noit (talk) 16:42, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Lynching of Leo Frank

I deleted reference linking this to war in Europe, not supported by any sources. --Parkwells (talk) 19:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion

I recently switched template:Texas History to be based on template:Region history. Ideally it would be nice for all the state history infoboxes to be based off the same base template in order to gain some consistency.

Would anybody be opposed to doing something like the following?

--Mcorazao (talk) 17:30, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

that's an interesting good idea--but of course every state will have a very different outline and thosde will change as text is added. Rjensen (talk) 17:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

? template: Region history doesn't require any particular timeline organization (or any timeline at all). What is the concern? --Mcorazao (talk) 01:50, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Penal Colony

"The misconception of Georgia's having been founded as a debtor or penal colony persists due to the numerous English convicts who were sentenced to transportation to Georgia."

LOL...I should think that the author of this article could come up with something better than this thoroughly asinine denial of Georgia's past. It's the same mentality that insists that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, but "states' rights," which, of course, was the right to keep slaves! Danwaggoner (talk) 04:30, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Basis for Civil Rights movement

I am not an expert in the actual details of how the Civil Rights movement started. It was hardly WWII, where all Afro-Americans were very segregated, just as they were everywhere else, though less up north. But most training bases for Georgians enlistees/draftees would have been in the segregated South. The military, too, was very segregated if only because they had Southern whites in preferred positions. While there were a few bright spots like the Tuskegee Airmen, most had "entry-level" jobs. Except for the Airmen, there were nearly no officers, and few NCOs. I am removing all of this since it comes without citation and is counter-historical. Student7 (talk) 21:54, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

yes the military was segregated & I changed the article to say that. Most RS say it was the returning WW2 veterans that largely formed the civil rights movement. For the first time ever a large black population had seen the world--and received equal pay, uniforms etc as whites (but lower promotion rates). Cites: (1) "Returning black veterans energized the civil rights movement and demanded equal treatment for themselves and their families." [Thomas, Deluxe Jim Crow (2011) p 170]; (2) "The dissonance between the idealistic rhetoric of World War II and the racist reality of 1940s America created the new militance among black veterans that spurred the early civil rights movement." [Estes 2007 p 35]; (3) "Black veterans transformed the civil rights movement and the debate over the future of African Americans in two key ways. In one important respect, ex-GIs gave credibility to advocates of equality...." [Gambone (2005) p 127]; (4) "in examining the importance of ex-servicemen in civil rights activism in Mississippi during the postwar era, John Dittmer writes that black veterans were 'the shock troops of the modern civil rights movement.'" [Saxe (2007) p 158]; (5) "veterans [in Georgia] thus provided the groundwork for an effective civil rights movement," [Pencak (2009) 1:28]. etc etc. Rjensen (talk) 01:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Sun Belt growth and the New Right

"With the advantages of cheap real estate, low taxes, Right-to-work laws and a regulatory environment limiting government interference, the Atlanta metropolitan area became a national center of..." This reads like GOP-inspired propaganda. It would be as if I credited Chicago's success to "managed growth, a progressive tax structure, strong unions, and a regulatory environment encouraging active governance". Would that not sound like I was a shill for Democratic Party positions in an encyclopedia? I move that the first part of this sentence be stricken for biased language. Lothar76 (talk) 05:32, 21 November 2012 (UTC)