Georgia-Pacific's corporate headquarters moved to Atlanta in 1982 after being based on the West Coast for nearly thirty years. In 2005 the company was acquired by Koch Industries and became a privately held, wholly owned subsidiary. Georgia-Pacific continues to operate from its Atlanta headquarters.
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The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, founded in 1937, is housed in the former home of Nicholas Ware, the mayor of Augusta at the time of the home's construction in 1818. Today the Ware house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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One of the most successful coaches in college football history, Glenn "Pop" Warner coached the University of Georgia football team to their first undefeated season in 1896.
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Grady Health System is the largest public hospital–based health system in the Southeast, providing more than 200 specialty and subspecialty health care clinics. Included are Grady Memorial Hospital; Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding, an affiliate of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; Crestview Health and Rehabilitation Center; nine neighborhood health centers; and the only level-one trauma center within a 100-mile radius of downtown Atlanta.
The nucleus of Grady’s service area is Fulton and DeKalb counties in Atlanta, where Grady contracts to provide care for the medically underserved.
Civil rights activist H. Rap Brown was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1967. Brown's radical vision and aggressive rhetoric marked a shift from the nonviolent civil disobedience prescribed by Martin Luther King Jr. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOoaCsrJ%2Bnxm6t0Zyfmp2fobyoxY6hZKuZoGKvs7vWp2ahZaKWvW6u0aiup5dgZX9w