Viola Ross Napier was elected to Georgia’s House of Representatives in 1922, only two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants women the right to vote. Elected as a representative from Bibb County, Napier became one of the first two women to hold elected office in the state. (Bessie Kempton, of Fulton County, was elected at the same time.) During her two terms, the widowed mother of four sponsored legislation to improve children’s rights and to increase protection for the blind and handicapped.

U.S. president William Howard Taft (front row, second from left) attends a baseball game in 1910. Seated directly behind Taft is Augusta native Archibald Butt, who served as the president's military aide from 1909 until his death aboard the Titanic in 1912. 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.

Also known as “the Guitar Wizard,” the blues musician Tampa Red was a master of the slide guitar and one of the most prominent figures of the Chicago, Illinois, blues scene during the 1930s and 1940s. Though little known today, he was a popular and influential performer whose recording career extended from 1928 to 1960. Born Hudson Woodbridge on January 8, 1904, in Smithville, Georgia, he was raised in Tampa, Florida, by his grandmother’s family, the Whittakers, whose name he adopted.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the AAA in January 1936, a slightly modified version of the law was passed in 1938.

Albany Technical College is located in Albany, the seat of Dougherty County and the commercial hub and urban center of southwest Georgia. Although Albany is known for its peanut and pecan production, its population is largely employed in the health care, education, defense, data-processing, and manufacturing industries. Albany Tech supports southwest Georgia’s workforce needs through its technical education and economic development programs; some of the college’s most noted associate degree and diploma programs are in the manufacturing, health care, and service industries.