Maynard Jackson {Ans: He was Atlanta's first black mayor. He created neighborhood planning units. He helped secure Atlanta's selection to have the Olympic Games in 1996.}Henry McNeal Turner {Ans: American Methodist Episcopal Believed that there was no hope in US for African Americans after Jim Crow South would never truly be equal and have real freedom Major proponent for them returning to Africa 1863 Instrumental in organizing the First Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops}Fletcher vs. Peck {Ans: The decision stems from the Yazoo land cases, 1803, and upholds the sanctity of contracts.}James Jackson {Ans: Overturned the Yazoo land fraud of 1795 Served in the Georgia militia in the American Revolutionary War; served at the defense of Savannah, the Battle of Cowpens, and the recapture of Augusta and Savannah An early GA politician of the Democrat-Republican Party}Jefferson Long {Ans: First black Georgian elected to congress}William T. Sherman {Ans: Served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War Took command of the Union army in Chattanooga,Tennessee Known for his famous "march to the sea" His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside Captured and burned Atlanta, Georgia in September of