Ha Jin is a widely acclaimed author of novels, short stories, and poetry. He launched his writing career in 1990—just three years before joining the creative writing faculty of Emory University in Atlanta—with the publication of a collection of poems entitled Between Silences: A Voice from China. Since that first book, Jin has produced numerous other works, including the poetry volumes Facing Shadows (1996) and Wreckage (2001), and the short-story collections Ocean of Words: Army Stories (1996), Under the Red Flag (1997), The Bridegroom (2001), and A Good Fall (2009).

Harmon Caldwell, president of the University of Georgia during the Cocking affair in 1941, announced he would resign from his post if Walter Cocking didn't receive a hearing before termination of his position as dean of the school's College of Education. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOoKavnaKjuqa602anqKSZqbakv46cppyjmaO0bq3Fn5iiql%2BieneDk2g%3D

Many  path-breaking U.S. Supreme Court cases have grown out of Georgia’s long and tragic history of racial discrimination. Critical decisions have concerned racially motivated murders and beatings, deprivations of voting rights, and governmental segregation of parks and other public facilities. Perhaps no decisions have had a greater practical impact, however, than Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) and its companion case from Alabama, Katzenbach v. McClung, in which the Supreme Court upheld the public accommodations provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Professor David Fillingim (standing) and students in the Hugh Davis Center for Ministry Education at Shorter University in Rome are pictured in 2003. Courtesy of Shorter 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.

The Jack Tarver Library, located on the Mercer University campus in Macon, is named for Jackson Williams Tarver, a prominent Georgia journalist and businessman. Tarver graduated from Mercer University in 1938, with a degree in journalism. Courtesy of Mercer 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.