Georgia Douglas Johnson was an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the literary and cultural movement that flourished in the predominantly Black Harlem neighborhood of New York City after World War I (1917-18). Johnson’s four volumes of poetry, The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962), established her as one of the most accomplished African American woman poets of the literary movement.

The collections affiliated with the Georgia Museum of Natural History are made up of more than four million objects. Most of the collections are the largest of their kind in Georgia, with regional, national, or international significance. The majority of the objects were collected during the twentieth century. The southeastern United States is a center of temperate biodiversity, which makes the collections significant because of the unique ecosystems they represent. They also document Georgia’s rapidly vanishing archaeological and natural heritage.

The secretary of state's offices are housed at the state capitol in Atlanta. The secretary of state provides educational programs about the capitol and oversees the capitol museum. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource may need to be submitted to the Digital Library of Georgia.

Georgia Women of Achievement, a statewide organization, is dedicated to publicizing, researching, and providing educational materials about the accomplishments of outstanding women in Georgia history. The need for such an organization was first suggested in 1988 by former first lady Rosalynn Carter, and two years later a group of Wesleyan College alumnae and other influential Georgians founded Georgia Women of Achievement. Inductees at the first ceremony in March 1992 were Martha Berry, Lucy Craft Laney, Juliette Gordon Low, Sara Branham Matthews, and Flannery O’Connor.

Atlanta-based Gold Kist, founded during the Great Depression by a young agronomy instructor at the University of Georgia, merged in 2006 with rival Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation to form the world’s largest poultry company. In 2003 Gold Kist employed more than 18,000 people, conducted annual sales of more than $1.8 billion, and comprised 2,300 member-owners who produced 14.5 million chickens per week for national and international markets. The Early Years, 1930s-1940s In 1922 D.