The Great Migration was a mass movement of millions of African Americans that forever changed the state of Georgia and the United States. It developed in two general phases, with an initial wave that occurred between 1910 and 1930 and a second that unfolded between 1940 and 1970. Over the course six decades, roughly 6 million Black southerners moved from the South to the North, Midwest, and West. Although millions of white southerners also moved during this period, scholars use the term “Great Migration” to refer only to the movements of African Americans—a choice indicative of their history as a racialized minority throughout slavery and Jim Crow.

An internationally known scientist, Henry Clay White served as professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia from 1872 to 1927. White was especially interested in the application of chemistry to the improvement of crops, and he advanced agricultural science and education in Georgia. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 30, 1848, White was the son of Louisa Elvira Brown and Levi Stratton White, a merchant. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1870, he worked briefly for a chemical company in Baltimore and presented lectures at the city’s Maryland Institute for the Promotion of Mechanic Arts.

Ellis Arnall, far left, shakes hands with Herman Talmadge, who is obscured, on January 7, 1947. Running for office on the heels of the Cocking affair, the thirty-five-year-old Arnall defeated Eugene Talmadge to become the youngest governor in the nation. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOmqmtq12Ywq3A1KucaJ2coba0ecCrpZqknGJ%2BenyWZmhycWJktaa%2BzJqlZqyRobqisMaeZJqmlGKus7rApaNmq5iWuKarj2loZmpf

The Hofwyl Plantation (later the Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation) in Glynn County, a state historic site, is pictured circa 1910. The plantation, established in 1801, produced rice until shortly after the Civil War ended in 1865. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Georgia Archives.

In 1981 Allen received the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, presented by Coretta Scott King. A year after his death in 2003 the city of Atlanta honored their former mayor by naming a street after him. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.