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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. In Georgia SNCC concentrated its efforts in Albany and Atlanta.

Emerging from the student-led sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, SNCC's strategy was much different from that of already established civil rights organizations. In April 1960, on the Shaw University campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, studen...

John Hope (1868-1936)

John Hope was an important African American educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. In 1906 he became the first black president of Read more...

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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies is a center for documenting and promoting the study of Georgia's modern political history,...

Irrigation

More than 1.5 million acres of orchards and fields are irrigated in Georgia, and a cornucopia of vegetable, fruit, nut, fiber, and animal feed crops are made possible by the surface run...

Julian and Julia Collier Harris (1874-1963; 1875-1967)

Julian and Julia Collier Harris owned the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, which won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Throughout the 1920s their newspaper served as a stri...