Anne Cox Chambers was a media mogul, philanthropist, and former U.S. ambassador. She was the primary owner of Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire comprised of newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as television, radio, and other businesses. For thirty-three years, she co-owned the company with her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, who died in May 2007. In 2016, Chambers had an estimated worth of $17 billion. Anne Cox was born on December 1, 1919, in Dayton, Ohio, to Margaretta Blair and James Middleton Cox.

In 1849 George W. Crawford, a former governor of Georgia, joined U.S. president Zachary Taylor's cabinet as secretary of war. From left, Reverdy Johnson, William M. Meredith, William B. Preston, Zachary Taylor, Crawford, Jacob Collamer, Thomas Ewing, and John M. Clayton. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcK3NrZybnZyhwq55xKuYZmloZX1ufZdvZ2g%3D

On September 18, 1895, the African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington delivered his famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. Considered the definitive statement of what Washington termed the “accommodationist” strategy of Black response to southern racial tensions, it is widely regarded as one of the most significant speeches in American history. Two years earlier, Washington had spoken in Atlanta during the international meeting of Christian Workers.

The Atlanta History Museum, located on the campus of the Atlanta History Center, is one of the Southeast's largest history museums. The 30,000-square-foot facility, designed by architect George T. Heery, opened in 1993 and houses four permanent exhibitions, as well as two galleries for traveling exhibitions. 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.

Founded in 1974, Atlanta Metropolitan State College was for several decades the only predominantly Black two-year institution in Georgia. In 2012 the college began offering four-year degree programs as well. It is located in southwest Atlanta, five minutes from downtown, on an expansive sixty-eight-acre wooded tract. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority bus line stops at the campus, which is adjacent to Interstate 75/85. Enrollment in 2011 was 2,782 students, most of whom were nontraditional (the average student is twenty-seven years old).