General Joseph Wheeler, born near Augusta, commanded U.S. volunteers in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Wheeler also served during the Civil War and the Philippine Insurrection, and authored several books on military and civil subjects. Wheeler County, in central Georgia, is named in his honor. From The Conflict with Spain and Conquest of the Philippines, by H. F. Keenan 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 papers of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., including speeches, letters, sermons, and other manuscripts, are housed at approximately 200 institutions around the world. The largest collections reside at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts; the King Center in Atlanta; and as of 2006, the Atlanta University Center in Atlanta, which houses papers deeded to Morehouse College. Boston University Collection King earned his doctoral degree from Boston University in 1954.

The Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base has had a significant impact on the growth of Camden County. The base employs thousands of people. Courtesy of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay 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.

In July 1964 Athens-area Ku Klux Klan members shot and killed Lemuel Penn, an African American World War II (1941-45) veteran and officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, who was returning home to Washington, D.C., after reserve training at Fort Benning (later renamed Fort Moore). Penn’s murder captured headlines nationwide, dramatizing the need for civil rights reform and ultimately prompting a reappraisal of Klan activity throughout the South. The Murder In the early hours of July 11, 1964, a Chevrolet sedan carrying U.

Liberty County, located on the Georgia coast, was one of the seven Georgia counties created from the original colonial parishes. The Guale Indians inhabited that area from prehistoric times, and in the eighteenth century the tribe became a part of the Muskogee or Creek Confederation. The Spanish placed a mission on St. Catherines Island, known as Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, in the late sixteenth century among the Guale Indians. In the early 1750s English settlers, including a group of Congregationalists from Dorchester, South Carolina, located in the area between the Medway and Newport rivers.