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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1946
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| January 1, 1946 |
Georgia defeats Tulsa 20-6 in the Oil Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| April 2, 1946 |
The U. S. Supreme Court, in Primus King v. State of Georgia, rules the "white only" primary is unconstitutional.
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The Road to Integration
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| June 3, 1946 |
U. S. Supreme Court bans segregation on interstate buses
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The Road to Integration
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| June 4, 1946 |
President Harry S. Truman signs the (Russell-Ellender) National School Lunch Act into law. The act assured every child of a well-balanced, low-cost meal at school. It was one of Dick Russell's major accomplishments
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| July 1, 1946 |
The Centers for Disease Control, Communicable Disease Center is organized in Atlanta
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| July 7, 1946 |
Jimmy Carter marries his childhood sweetheart, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith
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Jimmy Carter |
| July 25, 1946 |
Four blacks, two of whom were female, are pulled from a car in Walton County by a gang of white men. One of the men had been accused of attacking his employer and had just been bailed out of jail. According to testimony, one of the females recognized the attackers. All four were murdered. This incident is commonly called the "Walton County Massacre"
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Walton County, Georgia |
| August 6, 1946 |
The Atlanta Constitution publishes Martin Luther King's letter to the editor in which the future civil rights leader calls for "basic rights and opportunities" for blacks.
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The Road to Integration
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Martin Luther King
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| August 18, 1946 |
The state of Georgia grants a charter to "The Colombians," a highly organized, all-white group of neo-Nazis (although the state did not know this at the time) that promoted hatred of Jews and blacks.
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The Colombians |
| August 21, 1946 |
Savannah trollies make their final run. |
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| September 25, 1946 |
Chief Justice of the state supreme court Robert Benham is born in Cartersville
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| October 13, 1946 |
Actor Demond Wilson born, Valdosta, Georgia
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| October 28, 1946 |
Ralph Childers, a member of the Colombians, a white supremacy organization, blackjacked Clifford Hines for no reason other than he was a black man walking on a street the Colombians patrolled.
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The Colombians |
| October 31, 1946 |
The home of Minnie Sibley on Ashby Street was bombed by the Colombians. Sibley was black.
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The Colombians |
| November 4, 1946 |
Gov. Ellis Arnell, during an interview with Atlanta Constitution reporter Celestine Sibley, announces a four-point program to help rid the state of groups such as the Colombians
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The Colombians |
| November 20, 1946 |
Duane Allman born, Nashville, Tennessee
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Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band |
| December 7, 1946 |
119 people lose their lives in the worst hotel disaster in the United States when Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel burned. The hotel had 15 stories, but Atlanta fire-fighting equipment could not handle any building taller than 8 stories
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Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel |
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
| December 10, 1946 |
Two members of the Colombians describe in detail the activities of the group to an anti-Nazi group
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The Colombians |
| December 20, 1946 |
George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III born, Perry, Georgia
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Sonny Perdue |
| December 21, 1946 |
Gene Talmadge dies, cirrhosis of liver, beginning Georgia's three governors controversy
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Eugene Talmadge |
| December 21, 1946 |
Eugene Talmadge, who had recently been elected, but not inaugurated, governor of Georgia dies, sparking the "three governors conttroversy" |
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