Anna T. Jeanes was a Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist who sought to improve community and school conditions for rural African Americans. In 1907 she donated $1 million for the creation of a fund to hire Black teachers as supervisors in African American schools and to improve Black communities. This fund was distributed by the General Education Board, which was established by the John D. Rockefeller Foundation in 1902. The program in Georgia began with six Jeanes teachers in 1908 and eventually grew to fifty-three by 1939.

John Martin was governor of Georgia from 1782 to 1783. It was during his term of office that Georgia retook Savannah from the British and the Revolutionary War (1775-83) in Georgia came to an end. An honored Revolutionary War soldier turned politician, Martin played a vital role leading the new state of Georgia, which, in its short life, had known only war and revolution, into its first period of peace.

In 1876 Mormon missionary John Morgan traveled to Georgia from Salt Lake City, Utah, in an effort to win converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). His most important accomplishment was the establishment of a Colorado colony for emigrating southern Latter-day Saints, an achievement rewarded when he was named president of the Southern States Mission. John Hamilton Morgan was born on August 8, 1842, in Greensburg, Indiana, to Eliza Ann Hamilton and Garrard Morgan.

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