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By Jamil Zainaldin Between 1917 and 1932, some 5,000 lovingly designed and constructed Rosenwald Schools were built for rural African American children throughout the South [see “Bearing [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin By 1917 the Reconstruction that was to have secured freedom and equal opportunity for 4.5 million former slaves in the South had vanished. In its place was the vision of a “New [...]

By Betty Hollan If you visited Sapelo Island between 1920 and 1968, you may have seen a strong, lean woman briskly walking from one end of the island to the other, a long seven-mile stretch, her [...]

By Chris Dobbs Eugene Bullard was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895. As an expatriate in France, he became a boxer, soldier, fighter pilot, business owner, and spy. During his final years, in [...]

By Brian Brodrick The name—Atticus Greene Haygood—conjures images of To Kill a Mockingbird and old Georgia, which are both appropriate. If it were not for the New Georgia Encyclopedia, [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin Love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. We know these as essences of life. They are also at the heart of the stories told in the poetry and plays of the great, late August Wilson [...]