1. Sherman's March to the Sea

The March to the Sea, the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the Civil War...

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2. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists...

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3. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, often referred to as the SCLC, was one of the most significant...

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4. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was one of the key organizations...

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5. Cherokee Removal

In 1838-39 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral...

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6. Great Depression

The stock market crash in the waning days of October 1929 heralded the beginning of the worst economic...

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7. Sibley Commission

In 1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with...

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8. Andrew Young (b. 1932)

Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been in great...

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9. Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians...

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10. Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political...

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