The workshop for Community Playthings, a toy and furniture business run by members of the Macedonia Cooperative Community, is pictured in 1975. The Macedonia community, located in Habersham County, was founded in 1937 and disbanded in 1957. Photograph by W. Edward Orser 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.

Georgia Perimeter College's Dunwoody Campus (pictured in 2003) was formerly the college's North Campus. Georgia Perimeter merged with Georgia State University in 2016. Courtesy of Georgia State University Perimeter College 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. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

Located on a wooded 227-acre campus in Swainsboro, East Georgia State College is a unit of the University System of Georgia. Situated approximately seventy miles from Augusta, ninety miles from Savannah, and ninety miles from Macon, the college serves a predominantly rural area of eighteen counties in Georgia’s coastal plain. The college enrolled 3,435 students in fall 2011. History As early as 1956, community leaders in Emanuel County and Swainsboro urged the state to establish a two-year college in the area.

In the aftermath of riots following the integration of the University of Georgia, Edwin Harrison, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, allowed the admission of Black students in May 1961. Georgia Tech became the first institution of higher education in the South to integrate peacefully and without a court order. 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.

The Granite Bowl, constructed in the 1950s, is home to the Elbert County Comprehensive High School Blue Devils. The bowl was built over Elberton's original spring, around which the town was settled. The spring still runs in a culvert under the football field. Photograph by Melinda Smith Mullikin, New Georgia Encyclopedia 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.