The Callaway family has changed the face of Georgia by building and operating textile mills, developing and maintaining gardens, and supporting cultural, humanitarian, and religious projects. Callaway family members founded what became Callaway Mills in 1900 and operated them until 1968. They established Callaway Gardens in 1952 and remain active in its management. The family has also given millions of dollars to a wide variety of projects through the Callaway Foundation and the Fuller E.

Citizens Trust Bank is among the largest Black-owned financial institutions in the country. For more than a century, it has provided critical financial services to Black-owned businesses and institutions in Atlanta and beyond. On August 16, 1921, Citizens Trust Bank opened on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. Its Trust Bank founder, African American businessman Heman Perry, served as the first chairman of the board, and Henry C. Dugas was Citizens Trust’s first president.

A map of Georgia, circa 1745, shows the territory inhabited by the Yamacraw Indians, a group formed in 1728 by disaffected Creek and Yamasee Indians. The Yamacraws, led by Tomochichi, established their first community on the bluffs of the Savannah River. After the arrival of James Oglethorpe in 1733, the group agreed to move north to accomodate Oglethorpe's plans to build an outpost, which later became the city of Savannah.

From the arrival of the first British settlers in February 1733 until the onset of the American Revolution (1775-83), the military in colonial Georgia played a fundamental role for the British Empire by protecting the southeastern frontier of its American colonies. Georgia, initially founded as a defensive proprietorship to protect the more-settled colony of South Carolina, periodically saw small detachments of the regular British soldiers assigned to it, but the militia and provincial units remained the primary security force in the region throughout the colonial era.

The Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), founded in Atlanta in 1919, worked until its merger with the Southern Regional Council in 1944 to oppose lynching, mob violence, and peonage and to educate white southerners concerning the worst aspects of racial abuse. The commission remained based in Atlanta but had state-level committees throughout the South and, in the 1920s, some 800 local interracial committees. Key leaders included Will W. Alexander, executive director; Jessie Daniel Ames, the longtime director of woman’s work; Arthur Raper, research director; and Robert B.