The Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition, held in Moultrie each year during the third week of October, features crop, livestock, and equipment demonstrations. The expo, which brings in an estimated $30 million to the area each year, attracted 200,000 visitors in 2005. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcK3Gq6CcrZypwrOty2aqoqyVqHw%3D

In 1880 the Italian-born pianist Alfredo Barili (pictured here in his 30s) became the first professional musician to move to Atlanta, where he played a major role in establishing the foundation upon which the city's vibrant classical music culture is based. 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.

Following the Albany Movement of 1961-62, civil rights activism in Georgia centered next on Americus, a small town in Sumter County located some thirty miles north of Albany in the southwestern portion of the state. Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) targeted the area as part of a voter registration and citizenship education plan, the outsiders soon discovered an energetic and committed group of local activists working through an organization called the Sumter County Movement.

Beverly Buchanan found her calling as an artist after pursuing a career in health education and realizing that she wanted to express the images, stories, and architecture of her African American childhood. The sharecropper’s shack, a disappearing fixture in the rural southern landscape, is often associated with poverty, but Buchanan saw it as an enduring image of vitality and creativity that is animated by the hopes and dreams of its inhabitants.

Bilali Mohammed, an enslaved African who lived openly as a Muslim on Sapelo Island, has been a subject of scholarly and popular interest since the nineteenth century. His experience is reflected in the “Bilali Document,” a brief manuscript he wrote concerning Islamic regulations. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOmqmtq12Ywq3A1KucaJqZoa6ttYympqGZnaKypXvBoqOapJmUurC0wKaknpyPZX1yew%3D%3D