Georgia Learn More Resources

Joseph M. Brown

Learn More – Joseph M. Brown Joseph M. Brown, The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia: Or, War Scenes on the W. and A. ([Buffalo, N.Y.]: Art-printing Works of Matthews, Northrup & Co., 1886). James F. Cook, The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004, 3d. ed. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005). William Montgomery Gabard, “Joseph Mackey Brown: A […]

Leah Ward Sears

Learn More – Leah Ward Sears Nagueyalti Warren, “Leah J. Sears-Collins,” in Notable Black American Women, book 2, ed. Jessie Carney Smith (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1996), 586. “Leah Ward Sears (b. 1955).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3724&sug=y Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys: http://www.gabwa.org/ Schiff Harden LLP: http://www.schiffhardin.com/attorneys/attorney-search/sears-leah-ward Washington Post Article on Justice Sears: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- […]

William B. Hartsfield Born

Learn More – William B. Hartsfield Born Ronald H. Bayor, Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Harold W. Martin, William Berry Hartsfield: Mayor of Atlanta (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978). http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugapressbks/pdfs/ugp9780820335445.pdf Clarence N. Stone, Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989). […]

Gone With The Wind Movie Wins 8 Oscars

Learn More – Gone With The Wind Movie Wins 8 Oscars Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley Jr., Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind”: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood (Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011). Judy Cameron and Paul J. Christman, The Art of “Gone With the Wind”: The Making of a Legend […]

Joe South

Learn More – Joe South Amy Duncan, “The Return of Joe South,” Christian Science Monitor, September 12, 1990. Zell Miller, They Heard Georgia Singing (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1996). Howell Raines, “Singer Joe South Has Rare Trait,” Atlanta Constitution, November 6, 1971. “Joe South (b. 1940).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1708&sug=y Georgia Music Hall of […]

Joanne Woodward

Learn More – Joanne Woodward Roy Harris, Eight Women of the American Stage: Talking about Acting (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1997). Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (New York: Delacorte Press, 1988). “Joanne Woodward (1930.).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1518&sug=y Internet Movie Database: www.imdb.com/name/nm0940946/ Oscar’s History: […]

Tiger Flowers

Learn More – Tiger Flowers Andrew M. Kaye, “The Canonisation of Tiger Flowers: A Black Hero for the 1920s,” Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 5, no. 2 (1998): 142-59. Andrew M. Kaye, The Pussycat of Prizefighting: Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004). Herman “Skip” Mason Jr., Black […]

First POWs at Andersonville

Learn More – First POWs at Andersonville Ovid L. Futch, History of Andersonville Prison (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1968). William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994). Andersonville National Historic Site: http://www.nps.gov/ande/index.htm “Famous Trials: The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz Commandant Andersonville Prison 1865.” http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Wirz/Wirz.htm “Andersonville Prison,” New […]

Atlanta Journal First Published

Learn More – Atlanta Journal First Published James E. Cebula, James M. Cox: Journalist and Politician (New York: Garland, 1985). James M. Cox, Journey through My Years (1946; reprint, Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004). Charles E. Glover, Journey through Our Years: The Story of Cox Enterprises, Inc. (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1998). Digital Library of […]

W.E.B. Du Bois

Learn More – W.E.B. Du Bois