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Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)

As a proponent of civil and human rights, Coretta Scott King helped her husband, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lead the modern civil rights movement. During their life together, she was his wife, friend, and partner, raising their four children while supporting his efforts to promote nonviolent social change in race relations during the tumultuous 1950s and 1960s. After her husband's assassination in 1968, she articulated a vision of Kingian nonviolence expressed internationally through the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change that she founded in...

Georgia Power Company/Southern Company

Since the 1880s, when the electric company began serving Atlanta citizens, the Georgia Power Company has grown to supply Georgia residents with electric power in all parts of the state....

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Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Digital Library of Georgia is celebrating its one-millionth digitized historic newspaper page. The premier issue of the Read more...

Brenau University Galleries

Brenau University Galleries, located on the campus of Brenau University in Gainesville, feature one of the finest university art ...

W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African American educator, historian, sociologist, and social activist who poignantly addressed the issues of racial discrimination, black social problems,and world peace during the first half of...