| A | B |
| Henry Grady | Coined the phrase "The New South" |
| Black Belt | high percentage of black residents |
| tenant farmers | those who worked someone else's land |
| sharecropper | land owner provides everything in exchange for a share of the crop that was harvested |
| crop lien | legal claim |
| Gate City of the South | Atlanta because of the numerous train companies |
| Booker T. Washington | built Tuskegee Institute |
| W.E.B. DuBois | organizer of Niagra Movement and NAACP |
| Dr. John Hope | President of Moorehouse College |
| Gustavus Orr | Father of Public Education |
| Martha Berry | Founded Berry College for Underpriveleged children |
| Juliette Gordon Low | Founder of the Girl Scouts of America |
| Mary Lumpkin | started the first garden club in America |
| Leo Frank | wrongly accused of murder and later hanged by a lynch mob |
| Joel Chandler Harris | Created the Uncle Remus Tales |