This is a working timeline and will be updated as my research progresses:<\/p>\n
1828- First Meeting of the Georgia State Temperance Society<\/p>\n
1836- Georgia State Temperance Society shifts to tee-total pledge<\/p>\n
1851- Maine passes statewide prohibition law<\/p>\n
1855- Methodist minister B.H. Overby launches campaign for governor on prohibition\u00a0platform<\/p>\n
1861-1865- Civil War<\/p>\n
1869- First Order of Good Templars lodge in the state<\/p>\n
1870- First Odd Fellows Lodge organized in Atlanta<\/p>\n
1871- First Prince Hall Masonic Lodge organized in Atlanta<\/p>\n
1873- First True Reformer Fountain organized in Black Atlanta<\/p>\n
1874- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union founded<\/p>\n
1875- First Good Samaritans lodge organized in Atlanta<\/p>\n
1880- First WCTU society established in Georgia<\/p>\n
1881- Frances Willard’s Southern Tour<\/p>\n
1883- Georgia statewide WCTU organized<\/p>\n
1885- Passage of Georgia’ General Local Option Law<\/p>\n
1885, Nov. 25- Fulton County’s first local option election \u2013 prohibitionist victory<\/p>\n
1887- Georgia’s first No. 2 Union established at Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta<\/p>\n
1887, Nov 26- Fulton County’s second local option election- anti-prohibitionist victory<\/p>\n
1888- Consultation Convention of Leading Colored Men of Georgia held in Macon<\/p>\n
1888- Benjamin Harrison wins the presidency; Republicans recapture both houses of Congress<\/p>\n
1890- Force Bill inspires Southern fear of black dominated Reconstruction government<\/p>\n
1893- Candler leads anti-WCTU movement in reaction to suffrage influence<\/p>\n
1894- Ida B. Wells goes to the UK and criticizes Willard’s racial rhetoric<\/p>\n
1895- Cotton Exhibition (Booker T. Washington’s Opening address, National Colored Woman’s Congress, Georgia Swift King’s speech on Scientific temperance)<\/p>\n
1895- Georgia Swift King speaks at the National WCTU Convention Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n
1896- Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em><\/p>\n 1902- Sledd Affair sparks public outrage when Emory professor publishes anti-lynching editorial<\/p>\n 1906 (Summer)- reports of black sexual assaults of white women fill Atlantan papers<\/p>\n 1906, September 22-24- Atlanta Race Riot<\/p>\n 1907, July 30- State prohibition passes in Georgia<\/p>\n 1908- Georgia disenfranchises black voters by constitutional amendment<\/p>\n 1918- Georgia ratifies Eighteenth Amendment<\/p>\n 1935- Georgia repeals statewide prohibition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading