This is a working timeline and will be updated as my research progresses:
1828- First Meeting of the Georgia State Temperance Society
1836- Georgia State Temperance Society shifts to tee-total pledge
1851- Maine passes statewide prohibition law
1855- Methodist minister B.H. Overby launches campaign for governor on prohibition platform
1861-1865- Civil War
1869- First Order of Good Templars lodge in the state
1870- First Odd Fellows Lodge organized in Atlanta
1871- First Prince Hall Masonic Lodge organized in Atlanta
1873- First True Reformer Fountain organized in Black Atlanta
1874- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union founded
1875- First Good Samaritans lodge organized in Atlanta
1880- First WCTU society established in Georgia
1881- Frances Willard’s Southern Tour
1883- Georgia statewide WCTU organized
1885- Passage of Georgia’ General Local Option Law
1885, Nov. 25- Fulton County’s first local option election – prohibitionist victory
1887- Georgia’s first No. 2 Union established at Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta
1887, Nov 26- Fulton County’s second local option election- anti-prohibitionist victory
1888- Consultation Convention of Leading Colored Men of Georgia held in Macon
1888- Benjamin Harrison wins the presidency; Republicans recapture both houses of Congress
1890- Force Bill inspires Southern fear of black dominated Reconstruction government
1893- Candler leads anti-WCTU movement in reaction to suffrage influence
1894- Ida B. Wells goes to the UK and criticizes Willard’s racial rhetoric
1895- Cotton Exhibition (Booker T. Washington’s Opening address, National Colored Woman’s Congress, Georgia Swift King’s speech on Scientific temperance)
1895- Georgia Swift King speaks at the National WCTU Convention Baltimore, MD
1896- Plessy v. Ferguson
1902- Sledd Affair sparks public outrage when Emory professor publishes anti-lynching editorial
1906 (Summer)- reports of black sexual assaults of white women fill Atlantan papers
1906, September 22-24- Atlanta Race Riot
1907, July 30- State prohibition passes in Georgia
1908- Georgia disenfranchises black voters by constitutional amendment
1918- Georgia ratifies Eighteenth Amendment
1935- Georgia repeals statewide prohibition