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Hank Aaron (b. 1934)

"Hammerin' Hank" Aaron, a player for the Atlanta Braves, hit 755 home runs, a record that stood unchallenged until 2007, during his twenty-three-year career in major league baseball. Aaron's other records include career runs batted in (RBIs) and number of All-Star game appearances. His contributions to baseball on and off the field continued the struggle against segregation begun by Jackie Robinson in 1947.

Early Years

Henry Louis Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama, on February 5, 1934, the day before Babe Ruth's thirty-ninth birthday. He was ...

The LeFevres

For more than fifty years, from the 1920s through the 1970s, the LeFevre family was one of the best-known acts performing southern gospel music. Although the LeFevres were natives of middl...

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University of Georgia Press

The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state and the only member of the Association of American University Presses within the University System ...

Mike Egan (1926-2016)

A prominent Republican leader in the Georgia General Assembly during the long transition from Democratic to Republican control of state government in the late twentieth century, ...

Slater King (1927-1969)

Civil rights activist Slater King was a successful realestate broker who focused his entrepreneurial skills on farsighted plans to help African Americans in...