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QUIZ REVIEW: Movers and Shakers of Georgia

QUIZ REVIEW: Movers and Shakers of Georgia. 1. Only President of the United States from Georgia Jimmy Carter Took an axe handle to black activists that tried to enter the Pickrick restaurant. Mayor Lestor Maddox 3. Active in bringing air transportation to Atlanta

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QUIZ REVIEW: Movers and Shakers of Georgia

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  1. QUIZ REVIEW: Movers and Shakers of Georgia

  2. 1. Only President of the United States from Georgia Jimmy Carter • Took an axe handle to black activists that tried to enter the Pickrick restaurant. • Mayor Lestor Maddox 3. Active in bringing air transportation to Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield • 4. Camp David Accords helped bring Egypt and Israel together for a peace discussion • Jimmy Carter

  3. 5. Youngest and first African American mayor of Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson 6. Received a Nobel peace prize for human rights Jimmy Carter 7. Brought major league sports to Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. 8. As governor, appointed many African Americans to state boards and commission more than all the other governors before him combined. Lestor Maddox .

  4. 9. Helped develop and expand MARTA Maynard Jackson 10. Served as the ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young 11. Helped reform the prison system even though he was a segregationist. Lestor Maddox 12. Authorized the city’s black policemen to arrest whites and hired the city’s first black firefighters Ivan Allen, Jr.

  5. 13. Removed the “white” and “colored” signs from city hall and desegregated the building’s cafeteria Ivan Allen, Jr. 14. “The city to busy to hate” William B. Hartfields 15. Expanded Atlanta’s international airport and pushed to have defibulators installed at all airports in the U.S. Maynard Jackson 16. Trusted aide to Martin Luther King, Jr Andrew Young • 17. Annexed land around Atlanta which tripled the size of the city. • William B. Hartsfield

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