1. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Although the event took place in Washington D.C., it had a significant impact on civil rights activism in Georgia and throughout the Deep South.

2. On August 28, 1957, Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin signed legislation designed to prevent desegregation in Georgia public schools. The "Georgia Pupil Placement Law" authorized local school districts to use a variety of methods to segregate students by race, including zoning and transfer policies.

3. On August 28, 1964, three civil rights workers - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner - were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. The three men had been working to register black voters in the area, and their deaths galvanized the civil rights movement.

4. On August 28, 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President at the party's convention in Denver, Colorado. Although Obama was not from Georgia, his candidacy represented a significant moment in the state's political history, as he became the first African American to be nominated for the presidency by a major political party.

5. On August 28, 1995, Georgia Governor Zell Miller declared a state of emergency and called out the National Guard to quell a riot at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville. The riot, which lasted for several days, resulted in the deaths of ten inmates and one guard, and highlighted concerns over conditions in the state's overcrowded and underfunded prison system.