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New Deal

Georgia was helped perhaps as much as any state by the New Deal, which brought advances in rural electrification, education, health care, housing, and highway construction. The New Deal also had a particularly personal connection to Georgia; Warm Springs was U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's southern White House, where he met and worked with many different Georgians. From the 1920s and throughout the Great Depr...

Malaria

Malaria, which has affected Georgians since colonial times, is a disease caused by one of four protozoan species of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite enters people through the ...

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GALILEO

GALILEO is Georgia's Virtual Library, providing access to articles, eBooks, historical documents and photos, and much more.�...

Albany

Albany, the seat of Dougherty County, has been the commercial hub of southwest Georgia for most of its history. Although it had competitors, namely...

Ida Cox (1894-1967)

Ida Cox was a vaudeville performer and a pioneering blues singer who, along with Gertrude "...