A caricature entitled "For the Sunny South," published in 1913, depicts an airplane towing a "Jim Crow trailer." Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 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.

Sequoyah, or Sequoia (both spellings were given by missionaries, but in Cherokee the name is closer to Sikwayi or Sogwali), also called George Gist or George Guess, was the legendary creator of the Cherokee syllabary. Born in a village in the mountains of Tennessee, he resettled in Arkansas when tribal land along the Little Tennessee River was ceded to whites in the 1790s. In 1829 he moved to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma.

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, dedicated in 1996 on the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta, includes approximately 450 works in its permanent collection. The primary focus of the collection is twentieth-century painting and sculpture by African American artists. Courtesy of Spelman College Museum of Fine Art 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.

In 1849 George W. Crawford, a former governor of Georgia, joined U.S. president Zachary Taylor's cabinet as secretary of war. From left, Reverdy Johnson, William M. Meredith, William B. Preston, Zachary Taylor, Crawford, Jacob Collamer, Thomas Ewing, and John M. Clayton. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcL%2FTmqueoJ%2BksXA%3D

One of the distinguishing features of southern culture is an “oratorical aesthetic.” Speech artistry, expressed through delivery as well as content, can still be heard in Georgians’ political and legal oratory, preaching, and conversation. Central to the region’s love affair with the spoken word is a strong narrative impulse, channeled in the telling of elaborately embroidered personal experiences as well as traditional tales. This thirst for a well-told story may be rooted in two influential Old World source areas for the South’s population, Ireland and Africa, where the institution of community storyteller (the sennachie and griot) commanded great respect.