Vaclav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, received the Delta Prize for Global Understanding in 2004. Havel was recognized for his efforts against communist political repression in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as for his leadership in creating a more peaceful Europe.
Image from Jiří Jiroutek
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In 1970 demonstrators in downtown Atlanta protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1964-73). Most antiwar marches in the city, which took place from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, followed a route down Peachtree Street to Piedmont Park.
Photograph by Carter Tomassi
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In 1962 Georgia opened its first welcome center along Highway 301 in Sylvania, near the South Carolina border. While travelers picked up maps, brochures, and souvenirs, hostesses armed with southern hospitality and donated Coca-Cola, peanuts, and Royal Crown cola would persuade them to stay and see Georgia's many attractions. Soon thereafter, welcome centers were built at Savannah, Lavonia, Ringgold, Columbus, and Valdosta.
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In the 1964 ruling Wesberry v. Sanders—a suit pursued by a group of Fulton County voters against Georgia officials, including Governor Carl Sanders—the U.S. Supreme Court built on its previous ruling in Gray v. Sanders (1963) to hold that all federal congressional districts within each state had to be made up of a roughly equal number of voters. With this ruling the Court radically altered how state legislatures would thereafter draw congressional districts, which, before Wesberry, often reflected long-established groupings of counties that ignored intervening urbanization and other major shifts in population.
The first Organized Labor and Workmen's Circle Banquet took place in May 1969 at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta. Seated from left to right: E. L. Abercrombie, Oliver Singleton, Gid Parham, Joe Jacobs, Robert Shadix, and Harold Bauman. Standing from left to right: Joe Baylan, Irving Gordon, E. T. Kehrer, George Caudelle, Harris Jacobs, John Wright, and James Howard (?).
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