In 1992 the state, in partnership with Georgia Power, created Tallulah Gorge State Park, one of the most popular in Georgia's park system. Controlled releases from the dam allow visitors to hear the roar of the falls on selected weekends in the spring and autumn.
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Jessica Tandy (as Daisy Werthan) and Morgan Freeman (as Hoke Colburn) on location in Georgia while filming Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
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In 1996 Chick-fil-A opened Truett's Grill in Morrow to commemorate founder Truett Cathy's fifty years in the restaurant business. A second location of the 1950s-style diner opened in McDonough in 2003. Both restaurants are decorated with items from Cathy's collection of antiques.
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The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had at least thirty-four divisions in Georgia during the early to mid-1920s.
Black Georgians read its newspaper, the Negro World, and contributed generously to many UNIA causes. The UNIA’s Jamaican founder, Marcus Garvey, had a significant following in the South, particularly in rural areas among tenant farmers and sharecroppers, for his programs of economic independence, racial separatism, and African redemption. His ideas also found strong support in urban areas with large Black populations, in the Caribbean, and in Africa.
The Wheatley Administration Building stands on the campus of Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus. Initially founded as an agricultural school, today the university offers majors toward fifty-two associate, thirty-six baccalaureate, and nineteen master's degrees.
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