A peanut sculpture, featuring a replica of U.S. president Jimmy Carter's famous smile, stands at the entrance of Plains, Carter's hometown. Before entering state politics in the early 1960s, Carter ran his family's peanut farm and warehousing business. He was elected president in 1976. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington 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.

Considered the most popular ball game in the world, soccer has developed in Georgia primarily as a suburban sport with vast numbers of children taking part. Soccer in the state spread mainly from the Atlanta area, which since the 1960s has been home to more than a dozen professional men’s and women’s teams. It is unclear when organized soccer first came to Georgia. Amateur players played in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park as early as 1912, and an amateur league played there in the 1920s and 1930s, consisting in part of employees from the John H.

Note from the Editors: In January 2013 South Georgia College merged with Waycross College to form South Georgia State College. This article chronicles the history of South Georgia College from its founding until the time of the merger. South  Georgia College is a four-year institution of the University System of Georgia. Located in Douglas, the school has provided educational opportunities to the residents of south Georgia since the early 1900s.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced “snick”), was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. In Georgia SNCC concentrated its efforts in Albany and Atlanta. Emerging from the student-led sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, SNCC’s strategy was much different from that of already established civil rights organizations. In April 1960, on the Shaw University campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, students of the sit-in movement met with Ella Baker, executive secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and they established SNCC.

Students at Southern Polytechnic State University (later Kennesaw State University) study surveying and mapping. Courtesy of Southern Polytechnic State University 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. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOnpuum5GptrC6jqymrqyYmr%2Bvec%2Boo7KslZi1r7XCZqqtmaSaera6yK%2Bcq6uZqcZwuYxwbm9sXw%3D%3D