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Frank "Flatfoot" Sinkwich earned the first Heisman Trophy awarded to a southern college player. He brought national recognition to the University of Georgia's football program by taking his team to the 1942 Orange Bowl, Georgia's first postseason appearance.

In November 1732 the Anne set sail from England, carrying James Oglethorpe and Georgia's first colonists. Almost a century later the final cession of Creek Indian land in Georgia was signed in 1827, and in 1864 Union general William T. Sherman began his destructive March to the Sea.

This month in 1936 Thornwell Jacobs, the president of Oglethorpe University, published his concept for a "crypt of civilization" in Scientific American. Spelman College in Atlanta received a $20 million donation from actor/comedian Bill Cosby in November 1988, and in 1992 Georgia voters approved a statewide lottery to help fund public education.

Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate in November 1922. U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke in 1935 at the opening of Techwood Homes in Atlanta, the nation's first public housing project. This month in 1972 Andrew Young became the first black U.S. congressman elected from the Deep South since Reconstruction, and in 1976 Jimmy Carter became the first Georgian to be elected president of the United States. In November 1983 U.S. president Ronald Reagan designated a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

Albany native Ray Charles's recording of "Georgia on My Mind" reached number one on the charts for the first time in November 1960. In sports, Frank Sinkwich, a halfback for the University of Georgia football team, won the Heisman Trophy in 1942. In 1977 the Atlanta Braves hired Bobby Cox to manage and rebuild the baseball team. In November 1995 pitching ace Greg Maddux became the first major league pitcher in history to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards, three of which he won while playing with the Braves.

November birthdays include: author and actress Fanny Kemble (1809); physician Crawford Long (1815); politician Carl Vinson (1883); lawyer and politician Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897); author Margaret Mitchell (1900); songwriter Johnny Mercer (1909); media mogul Ted Turner (1938); and musicians Duane Allman (1946) and Amy Grant (1960).

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James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785)
As visionary, social reformer, and military leader, James Oglethorpe conceived of and implemented his...

Creek Indians
The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia's colonial...

Thornwell Jacobs (1877-1956)
Ordained as a Presbyterian minister, Thornwell Jacobs is best known as the refounder and president of...

Spelman College
Spelman College, the nation's oldest historically black college for women, has provided women with access...

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930)
Rebecca Latimer Felton, who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four, lived a life that was as full as...

Andrew Young (b. 1932)
Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been in great...

Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)
Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term,...

Ray Charles (1930-2004)
As a performer and recording artist in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Ray Charles pioneered a new style...

UGA Football
As of the 2005 season the University of Georgia (UGA) football program has won five national championships,...

Atlanta Braves
After spending seventy-seven years in Boston, Massachusetts, and thirteen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the...

Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752
The first twenty years of Georgia history are referred to as Trustee Georgia because during that time...

Sherman's March to the Sea
The March to the Sea, the Civil War's most destructive campaign against a civilian population, began...

Oglethorpe University
Oglethorpe University, known for its Gothic revival architecture and its landmark location on Peachtree...

Education Reform
Education reform has long been a topic of political debate in Georgia. In most public opinion surveys,...

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia
Between 1924 and 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Warm Springs and Georgia forty-one times. In the...

Reconstruction in Georgia
As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civil War (1861-65)...

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...

Frank Sinkwich (1920-1990)
Frank "Flatfoot" Sinkwich earned the first Heisman Trophy awarded to a southern college player. He brought...

Bobby Cox (b. 1941)
One of the greatest managers in the history of major league baseball, Bobby Cox led the Atlanta Braves...

Techwood Homes
In 1935 Techwood Homes became the first public housing project built in the United States. The federally...


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