Throughout more than thirty years of service to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Earl T. Shinhoster distinguished himself as a tireless and versatile foot soldier for civil rights. From his days as a youth council member in the 1960s to his tenure as acting executive director, Shinhoster devoted his life’s work to the organization’s progress. The Decatur resident was, according to the NAACP’s former executive director Kweisi Mfume, “one of the NAACP leaders who made this organization work.

West Adams Street in the town of Forsyth, in Monroe County, is pictured circa 1913. On the left is Forsyth Methodist Church, and on the right is Maynard's Cotton Warehouse. 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 the Georgia Archives.

Soldiers at Fort Stewart, near Hinesville in Liberty County, stand in formation outside the fort's headquarters. Established during World War II, the fort has remained active and today houses around 16,000 troops of the Third Infantry 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. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Georgia Archives.

The county seat of Peach County, Fort Valley was founded in the 1820s as a Native American trading post and incorporated in 1856. Its economy has long been based on agriculture. Located in central Georgia, Fort Valley is fifty-eight miles from the Alabama state line and ninety miles due south of Atlanta. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 341 and Georgia Highways 96 and 49, where two early Indian trails met.

The geological development of the Georgia coast and shoreline is the result both of ongoing, and geologically long-term, physical processes and of their interaction with a rapidly increasing population intent on settling and developing the most dynamic portion of the coastal zone. Coastal Plain The state is divided into five major physiographic provinces based primarily on geologic age and origin, topographic expression, and rock type (lithology). The boundary between the very ancient crystalline rocks of the Piedmont and the sediments of the Coastal Plain is marked by the fall line, the upriver point where navigation becomes difficult or impossible due to outcropping rocks and increased land slope.