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County Unit System
The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act. This act formalized what had operated as an...
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Georgia History: Overview
In many ways Georgia's history is integrally linked to that of the rest of the South and the rest of the nation. But as the largest state east of the Mississippi, the youngest and southernmost of the...
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Moina Belle Michael (1869-1944)
Moina Belle Michael, a longtime Georgia educator, was best known for her work as a World War I (1917-18) remembrance advocate. Inspired by the poem "In Flanders Field," Michael first proposed that red...
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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 of the Confederate navy and...
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