1. The Bourbon Triumvirate
Three men who ruled the state consecutively for over thirty years
Wanted to blend the new and old by keeping southern traditions but industrializing
Believed in lower taxes and the convict lease system

2. Tom Watson A Populist Party politician
Looked to poor white and black farmers for political support
Supported 8 hour workday, graduated income tax, Australian ballot and government ownership of railroads
Most famous for his Rural Free Delivery bill

3. Rebecca Latimer Felton
Social and political reformer
Supported temperance, women’s suffrage, and educational reforms
Worked to abolish (end) the convict lease system
First woman to serve in the U.S. Senate

4. Hoke Smith Leader of Georgia’s Progressive movement
Ended the convict lease system
Georgia State Constitutional Amendment for the grand-father clause to disenfranchise African-Americans

5. Henry Grady Economic and social reformer Coined the phrase “New South”
Encouraged northern investment in the South
Increased circulation of the Atlanta Constitution
Organizer of International Cotton Exposition
Helped to establish Georgia Tech

6. Alonzo Herndon Entrepreneur Founded Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company
Used company to help other African-Americans start their own businesses
Helped save jobs of African-Americans

7. John Hope
First black president of Atlanta Baptist College which later became Morehouse College
Worked to bring bachelor programs to Atlanta Baptist College and eliminate the vocational / industrial curriculum

8. Lugenia Burns Hope Social reformer
Formed the Neighborhood Union which worked to improve African-American communities with improved sanitation, better schools, health and dental clinics

9. W.E.B. DuBois The “Talented Tenth” strategy for race relations
Need to educate the best of the African-American race to be the leaders for civil rights movement as part of Talented Tenth
Wanted full political rights immediately, not just social and economic rights

10. Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Compromise Speech which proposed economic equality and no need to force political and social equality
The accommodation strategy for African Americans
Vocational education essential for African-Americans seeking equality
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

11. Leo Frank Jewish man who supervises the National Pencil Company
Accused, convicted, and sentenced to life for the murder of Mary Phagan
Taken from jail and lynched
Case led to the re-development of the KKK on top of Stone Mountain – the Knights of Mary Phagan

12. Homer Plessy 1/8 African-American
Challenged the Jim Crow laws which set up separate but equal facilities in the South by boarding a train car for whites only
Plessy v. Ferguson case in Supreme Court
Lost case which promoted legal segregation