By 1951, when James V. Carmichael was just forty-one years old, he had become a successful and well-known businessman and politican. 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 should be submitted to the Atlanta History Center. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOm6ysoZ6awLR5xJymp6edrnyrrcyeqmauXZius7nInJ%2BanZxifnp9j2Zocm9iZLpugphwaWg%3D

James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia, serving from 1760 to 1782, with a brief interruption early in the American Revolution (1775-83). Almost alone among colonial governors, Wright was a popular and able administrator and servant of the crown. He played a key role in suppressing the flame of revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every other colony. Wright was born in London, England, on May 8, 1716, to Isabella and Robert Wright.

John Lewis speaks at a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1964. Lewis was elected chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1963 and served until 1966. The philosophy and tactics of SNCC underwent a radical shift following Lewis's departure. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, #LC-DIG-ppmsc-01270. 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.

Joseph Lowery was a distinguished civil rights leader and respected Methodist minister who, along with Martin Luther King Jr., helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Referred to as the “dean of the civil rights movement,” Lowery served as SCLC president from 1977 to 1997. He was a key figure in the desegregation of the United States and, after integration was achieved, focused his attention on other significant issues, such as Black voter registration, affirmative action, public health, and workers’ rights.

Joseph Rucker Lamar, an influential member of the Georgia legal community at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, was the fourth native Georgian appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. (His predecessors were James Moore Wayne, John Archibald Campbell, and Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar.) His appointment to the Court in 1910 by U.S. president William Howard Taft offered Lamar a chance to distinguish himself on the national stage.