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Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1868-1940)

Georgia native Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded, edited, and published the Chicago Defender, for decades the country's dominant African American newspaper. Through the pages of the Defender, Abbott exercised enormous influence on the rise of the black community in Chicago, Illinois, and on national African American culture.

Family and Education

Abbott was born on November 24, 1868, on St. Simons Island to Flora and Thomas Abbott. Abbott's mother was born a slave in Savannah in 1847 to Portuguese west African parents. He...

Charles B. Cluskey (ca. 1808-1871)

Charles Cluskey was an antebellum architect and a prominent designer of Greek revival–style houses and public buildings in Augusta,...

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Governor's Awards Ceremony

Every year, Georgia Humanities, the Office of the Governor, and the Georgia Council for the Arts...

Civil War Cemeteries

Both during and after the Civil War (1861-65), Georgians faced the task of burying the Confederate and Union soldiers who died within the state's bounds. Many of the fallen wer...

USS Savannah

Between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, multiple ships belonging to the U.S. Navy were named Savannah. Two ships carrying the name CSS Savannah were part ...