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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1956;_Stamp_Act
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| January 1, 1956 |
Georgia Tech defeats Ole Miss 7-0 at the Sugar Bowl
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| January 20, 1956 |
Branch Rickey described the problems he faced after his decision to integrate the Brooklyn Dodgers by signing Jackie Robinson in a speech in Atlanta, Georgia
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| January 23, 1956 |
Singer James Brown signed by King/Federal label
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James Brown |
| January 30, 1956 |
A bomb is tossed onto the porch of Martin Luther King's home. No one is injured as a result of the explosion.
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Martin Luther King
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| February 1, 1956 |
Savannah's WSAV TV signed on the air for the first time. It was an NBC affiliate
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
| February 1, 1956 |
The gates on Lake Lanier's dam, near Gainesville, Georgia, close, beginning the containment of the most popular Corps of Engineers lake in the Southeast. |
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Lake Lanier |
| February 4, 1956 |
James Brown and the Famous Flames record Please, Please, Please in Cincinnati, Ohio
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James Brown |
| February 18, 1956 |
Dr. Thomas H. Brewer, who help create a Columbus chapter of the NAACP in 1937 and was an important figure in the Primus King case, is murdered by Lucio Flowers, a white policeman. Brewer was shot 7 times in front of his office in Columbus
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The Road to Integration
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Columbus, Georgia |
| March 12, 1956 |
Declaration of Constitutional Principles, also known as the "Southern Manifesto," is released to the press. Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell wrote the final draft of the Manifesto, which attacked the Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education Topeka. Only three southern Senators refused to sign it: Estes Kefauver, Albert Gore (Sr.) and Lyndon Johnson.
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The Road to Integration
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| March 31, 1956 |
After meeting Red Foley at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Brenda Lee appeared as a guest star on his Ozark Mountain Jubillee, Foley's national television show.
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Brenda Lee
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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| April 1, 1956 |
Turner Air Force Base becomes home to the U-2 plane
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| April 1, 1956 |
Long Tall Sally by "Little Richard" Penniman is released. It reaches #6 on the pop charts
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| April 11, 1956 |
The Venable family signs a quit claim deed for the area encompassing Stone Mountain, giving it to Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, Inc.
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Stone Mountain |
| May 21, 1956 |
Brenda Lee, then 11, is signed to a recording contract by Decca Records
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Brenda Lee
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| June 8, 1956 |
The Great Locomotive Chase, starring Fess Parker, Jeff Hunter and Jeff York opens at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. Much of the action was filmed on the Tallulah Falls Railroad in northeast Georgia. |
| July 2, 1956 |
Diocese of Atlanta is established
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| July 23, 1956 |
U. S. House of Representatives passes Civil Rights legislation. The Senate refuses to take up the issue in an election year.
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The Road to Integration
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| September 14, 1956 |
Oliver Hardy suffers a debilitating stroke |
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Oliver Hardy |
| October 14, 1956 |
On its way to an undefeated season, Georgia Tech introduces the first non-leather football.
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| October 19, 1956 |
Wayne-Gordon house, built by James Moore Wayne, (Savannah mayor, U. S. Congressman, Supreme Court Justice), home to William Washington Gordon (founder of Central of Georgia Railway) and birthplace of his daughter Julliette Gordon Low, and is dedicated as a museum after an extensive renovation
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts |
| October 27, 1956 |
Alexander Memorial Coliseum, on the Georgia Tech campus, is dedicated
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| November 13, 1956 |
The Supreme Court rules that segregation on city buses is illegal.
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Martin Luther King
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| November 18, 1956 |
Atlanta phone numbers are all 7 digits long
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