The Georgia Radio Hall of Fame is a nonprofit organization based in LaGrange. Its mission is to recognize radio professionals who are from the state of Georgia or who have worked in the state of Georgia, and to preserve the history of Georgia radio. It was founded in 2007 by Sam Hale and John Long. The Georgia Radio Hall of Fame recognizes two categories of inductees—career achievement (for living radio professionals) and legacy (for deceased radio professionals).

Georgia Trend, a monthly publication founded in 1985, follows the economic and political news in the state. This October 2004 cover displays photographs from the annual "40 under 40" feature, which lists forty influential Georgians in the business and political communities who are under the age of forty. Reprinted with permission of Georgia Trend 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.

Shoppers browse the "Gnat Market" in downtown Camilla during the 2005 Gnat Days Festival. The festival takes place each May and includes a 5K run/walk, a bicycle race, and a pet show. Courtesy of Camilla Chamber of Commerce 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.

Members of the board for the Nuclear Threat Initiative include, back row, left to right: Fujia Yang, Eugene E. Habiger, Hisashi Owada, Susan Eisenhower, Sam Nunn, Ted Turner, Andrei Kokoshin, Jessica Mathews, Charles B. Curtis, Prince El Hassan bin Talal. Front row, left to right: William Perry, Rolf Ekeus, Richard G. Lugar, Nafis Sadik. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcLPOr5yrpp2au7V5z6ijoqyZmMBw

The first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly, Grace Towns Hamilton was also the first female of her race in the Deep South to hold a public office of such consequence. She was among eight African Americans sent to the state legislature in a special election in June 1965; they were the first to enter the lower house since the end of Reconstruction. Hamilton represented her district in mid-Atlanta continuously for the next eighteen years, becoming known to her peers as “the most effective woman legislator the state has ever had.