Renowned modernist architect Marcel Breuer, designer of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed the Central Library (1980) for the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. The New York firm Hamilton Smith Associated Architects and the Atlanta firm Stevens and Wilkinson also collaborated on the building. Image from Eoghanacht 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 Church of God is an evangelical Pentecostal denomination that has emerged in recent years as one of the most prevalent Pentecostal denominations in Georgia. Early missionary work in the state led to the establishment of several churches between 1903 and 1920, and the Church of God retained steady appeal among both Black and white populations for the better part of the twentieth century. In 2006, 522 congregations in Georgia were members of this denomination.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), whose adherents are known as Latter-day Saints or Mormons, has a long history in Georgia. While the church’s growth came primarily from migration into Georgia, much was also the result of strong local leadership. By the end of the twentieth century, Atlanta had become a major center of Mormonism, and as of 2007 more than 60,000 Mormons lived in the state.

Both during and after the Civil War (1861-65), Georgians faced the task of burying the Confederate and Union soldiers who died within the state’s bounds. Many of the fallen were later reburied either in existing cemeteries or in new ones specifically dedicated to Civil War soldiers. Nearly every sizable cemetery in Georgia contains individual graves of Confederate soldiers or veterans who died after the war was over, and several have entire sections devoted to Civil War dead.

Among the numerous New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is remembered as one of the most popular and effective. Established on March 31, 1933, the corps’s objective was to recruit unemployed young men (and later, out-of-work veterans) for forestry, erosion control, flood prevention, and parks development. The president’s ambitious goal was to enroll a quarter of a million men by July 1, 1933. In what is considered to be a miracle of cooperation, four government agencies collaborated to turn Roosevelt’s goal into reality.