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Author Index
                         
W. Michael Kirkland
Blakely
Blakely, the seat of Early County and nicknamed the "Peanut Capital of the World," is located in southwest...
Hosea Williams (1926-2000)
Hosea Williams, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., was a principal leader of the civil rights movement...
Joseph Lowery (b. 1924)
Joseph Lowery, a distinguished civil rights leader and respected Methodist minister, helped to organize,...
Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)
Ralph Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief partner in the civil rights movement. He helped to...
Vernon Jordan (b. 1935)
Vernon Jordan, a lawyer and presidential advisor, has been an influential figure in the civil rights...
L. Katherine Kirkman
Upper Coastal Plain
The Upper Coastal Plain of Georgia is bounded on the north by the fall line and extends south to Florida...
John L. Kissinger
Camden County
Camden County is the southernmost county on the Georgia coast. Created by the Georgia Constitution of...
Karen Towers Klacsmann
Alexander Brook (1898-1980)
Alexander Brook, a leader among New York City's mainstream figurative painters during the 1930s, painted...
Andrée Ruellan (1905-2006)
Andrée Ruellan, a New York native of French descent, was a prominent artist of the twentieth...
Athos Menaboni (1895?1990)
Italian-born artist Athos Menaboni arrived in Georgia in the late 1920s and remained active until his...
Benny Andrews (1930-2006)
Benny Andrews, nationally recognized as an artist, teacher, author, activist, and advocate of the arts,...
Beverly Buchanan (b. 1940)
Beverly Buchanan found her calling as an artist after pursuing a career in health education and realizing...
Christopher Murphy Jr. (1902-1973)
Christopher Murphy Jr. was a prominent artist, teacher, and arts advocate in Savannah for much of the...
Emma Amos (b. 1938)
An artist accomplished in several media, Atlanta native Emma Amos confronts and explores difficult issues...
Emma Cheves Wilkins (1870-1956)
A lifelong resident of Savannah, Emma Cheves Wilkins continued the artistic legacy established by her...
Gari Melchers (1860?1932)
Gari Melchers was a distinguished late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century artist whose work was...
Hattie Saussy (1890-1978)
For much of the twentieth century, Hattie Saussy was closely associated with the art community of Savannah...
Hilda Belcher (1881-1963)
Hilda Belcher, a native of Vermont, began a long association with the state of Georgia in 1913, when...
Jackson Lee Nesbitt (1913-2008)
Jackson Lee Nesbitt, a noted printmaker and painter of the American Scene, dedicated his artistic career...
Jasper Johns (b. 1930)
For more than fifty years, Augusta-born artist Jasper Johns has set a standard for American art. Over...
John Abbot (1751-ca. 1840)
Naturalist and artist John Abbot advanced the knowledge of the flora and fauna of the South by sending...
Larry Connatser (1938-1996)
Larry Connatser, an accomplished pianist and painter, grew up in Atlanta and lived on and off in Georgia...
Nell Choate Jones (1879-1981)
Nell Choate Jones, a Georgia native, embarked on an artistic career when she was in her forties, and...
Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982)
A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work...
William O. Golding (1874-1943)
Shanghaied from the Savannah waterfront when he was eight years old, William O. Golding chronicled his...
Jennie Sykes Knight
Shrine of the Black Madonna
The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Atlanta was founded as the ninth congregation of the Pan African Orthodox...
Unitarianism and Universalism in Georgia
Although the Unitarian and Universalist movements have quite different theological and cultural origins,...
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