Willie Lee Perryman, a blues pianist, created the Dr. Feelgood persona for his WAOK radio show, and he performed under the name with his band, the Interns. From left, Perryman, Curtis Smith, Bobby Lee Tuggle, Roy Lee Johnson, Beverly Watkins, and Howard Hobbs.
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As the forceful ruler of the Creek town of Coweta, on the Chattahoochee River fifteen miles south of Columbus, Brims was the first of a line of strong Lower Creek leaders during the eighteenth century and set the standard for their diplomatic policy of neutrality. His stance of regular interaction with all European empires—Spanish, French, and British—earned him mixed evaluations among foreigners and natives, who applauded his clever schemes or condemned his crafty fluctuations.
With increased financial incentives to film in Georgia, international studios invested resources to produce in the state. These three photographs show the Pinewood Atlanta Studios site in Fayette County before, during, and after construction. Originally part-owned by British Pinewood Studios, the Fayette location has since become an independent venture named Trilith Studios.
From USDA-FSA Aerial Photography Field Office. Collage by Jonathan D. Hepworth, New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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Davis Love III of Sea Island has distinguished himself as one of the top career money winners on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) tour. As of 2016 Love has won twenty-one PGA tournaments, including one major—the 1997 PGA championship. He finished second at the 1995 Masters Tournament, which is played annually at the Augusta National Golf Club. Love was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 2001.
Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 13, 1964.
As one of a handful of Black lawyers practicing civil rights law in the 1950s and 1960s, Donald Hollowell was instrumental in the movement to desegregate public institutions throughout Georgia.
During his long career Hollowell provided counsel to student activists during the Atlanta sit-ins, defended Martin Luther King Jr. and other demonstrators during the Albany Movement, and successfully litigated the landmark case integrating the University of Georgia (UGA). In 1966 he became the first African American regional director of a major federal agency when U.