Griffin Bell was the seventy-second attorney general of the United States and a major figure in the American legal profession in the last half of the twentieth century. Griffin Boyette Bell was born in rural Sumter County on October 31, 1918, to Thelma Leola Pilcher and Adlai Cleveland Bell, a cotton farmer. He was raised in the Shiloh community just outside Americus. Forced by the advance of the boll weevil to leave the farm and move into Americus, Adlai Bell (a second cousin of Reason C.

In 1955 Congress appropriated more than $4 million to build a facility in Marietta that would allow for longer runways than those at Naval Air Station Atlanta in Chamblee. Construction was completed in 1959. Pictured, from left, are Eddie Richebacker, James V. Carmichael, L. M. "Rip" Blair, and George McMillan. 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.

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Ivenue Love-Stanley, a native of Mississippi, was the first African American woman to receive a degree in architecture from Georgia Tech. She is the cofounder, with her husband, Bill Stanley, of the Atlanta architectural firm Stanley, Love-Stanley, for which she serves as business manager and principal in charge of production. Courtesy of Stanley, Love-Stanley, P.C. 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.