Brigadier General Rufus Saxton served as the first assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau assigned to Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. During his four-month tenure in 1865, Saxton advocated free labor and land acquisitions for freedpeople. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 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.

Savannah Technical College is located in Savannah, the seat of Chatham County, Georgia’s northernmost coastal county. The Crossroads Technology Campus in Savannah, a satellite campus in Hinesville, and an educational center at Fort Stewart supplement the main campus in providing education and training to the school’s service delivery area, which includes Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty counties. Savannah Tech is a member of the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG).

Tourism by automobile took hold in the United States during the early 1900s. After a long day of traveling, most autocampers created their own accommodations for the night by stopping alongside the road and attaching a canvas tent to the side of the vehicle. As the travel industry boomed, travelers faced ever-growing options for roadside lodging. Soon towable tent and pop-up trailers were mass produced, and no-frills campsites sprang up along major tourist routes like the Dixie Highway.

Shaw Industries, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, is the largest manufacturer of carpet in the world today, with sales of more than $4.5 billion in 2003. Shaw also markets other floor coverings, including hardwood and vinyl. The company employs more than 30,000 workers, most of them in Georgia. Shaw Industries, its founders, and its predecessor firms have played a key role in the creation of northwest Georgia’s dominant carpet industry and in the emergence of Dalton as the carpet capital of the world.

During the 1960s Georgia and the rest of the country experienced an increase in student activism on its college campuses and in its cities. Opposed to U.S. political leadership and dissatisfied with American culture, student activists held demonstrations across the state and experimented with lifestyle changes in the hope of effecting fundamental change in American life. The student movement, also called the New Left because it represented the latest manifestation of left-leaning political activism, gained converts on campuses across the nation throughout the decade.