The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC)  is America’s foremost center of historically African American theological training and graduate study. Located in the heart of the Atlanta’s West End Historic District, it began in 1958, when four denominations agreed to join their seminaries: Morehouse School of Religion (Baptist), Gammon Theological Seminary (Methodist Episcopal, later United Methodist), Turner Theological Seminary (African Methodist Episcopal), and Phillips Theological Seminary (Christian Methodist Episcopal). In 1969 the Johnson C.

Contraband merchant, trader, and civilian spy James J. Andrews led a Union raiding party behind Confederate lines to Atlanta, stole a locomotive, and raced northward, destroying track, telegraphy lines, and bridges toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, in what has become known as the Andrews Raid. Image from Internet Archive Book Image 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.

The topography of Jekyll Island illustrates the process of erosion occurring on most of Georgia's barrier islands. Many of the islands consist of a Pleistocene-era core to which a Holocene-era barrier island became attached around 5,000 years ago. Subsequent erosion by the rising sea has removed most of the Holocene barrier sands. Courtesy of V. J. Henry 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.

Graham Jackson Sr. performed nightly at Johnny Reb's Dixieland canteen and restaurant in Atlanta until 1967. 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. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to Special Collections and Archives at Georgia State University. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOmqmtq12Ywq3A1KucaJ%2BilrWiuYyjmJyjo6S7br%2FRaKGooJ6jxm6%2BxJuqmGhgZnw%3D

Julian and Julia Collier Harris owned the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, which won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Throughout the 1920s their newspaper served as a strident and uncompromising editorial voice in the South. Julian LaRose Harris was born in Savannah on June 21, 1874, to Esther LaRose and Joel Chandler Harris, a journalist and folklorist. He attended West End Academy and, for a year, Gordon Military Academy (later Woodward Academy) in Atlanta.