Georgia Stories
By Georgia Public Broadcasting
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Podcast Description
Georgia Stories Biographies is a multimedia series about important figures in Georgia's past.
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Nathanael Greene | Nathanael Greene was an influential general in the Revolutionary War. The colony of Georgia was freed from British command under his leadership | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - George Whitefield | George Whitefield was an Anglican evangelist and an instrumental leader in the founding of the Methodist movement in America. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Charles Weltner | Charles Weltner was a U.S. congressman from Georgia who courageously opposed segregation and advocated for racial equality during a turbulent time in Gerorgia's past. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Lester Maddox | Lester Maddox was the 75th governor of Georgia. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Hoke Smith | Hoke Smith was a lawyer, publisher, and politician in Georgia in the early 1900s. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Jimmy Carter | Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He was the only native Georgian to serve as president to date. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Andrew Young | Andrew Young was a politician and a human rights advocate. | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Walter White | Walter White was an important civil rights activist. | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Booker T. Washington | Booker T. Washington was an important African American leader, speaker and author who became well known in Georgia after delivering a speech in 1895 known as the "Atlanta Compromise". | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - James Oglethorpe | James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia. | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - W.E.B. Du Bois | Du Bois was one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - John Slaton | John Slaton was the sixteenth governor of Georgia and will long be remembered for his involvement in the Leo Frank Case. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Jeanette Rankin | The first woman elected to the United States Congress was Jeannette Rankin, a woman with an important connection to Georgia. | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Carl Sanders | Carl Sanders had a long and storied career in Georgia politics. | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biography: Fanny Kemble | Fenny Kemble recorded her experience on a Georgia Plantation in the book Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation. Her work was circulated amongst abolitionists throughout the country | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | March 12 | The Girl Scout movement was founded in America when 18 girls held their first meeting at the home of Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah on this day in Georgia History. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | March 7 | Tom Murphy, a Democrat from Georgia, served as Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives for an astounding 28 years. This Week in Georgia History looks back briefly on his remarkable career. | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | March 3 | Following emancipation, the economy of the American South was reeling. Southern states used convict leasing to fill the labor void created by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution | 3/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | February 24 | During this week in Georgia history, lawyer Edward F. Hoge published the first issue of The Atlanta Journal. | 2/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | February 10 | In 1788, Georgia sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention to draft a new governing document for the United States. | 2/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week In Georgia History | February 14 | The Yazoo Land Fraud is one of the most notorious political scandals in Georgia's history. | 2/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | February 2 | As editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Ralph McGill advocated racial desegregation during a time when his fellow Southern journalists remained silent. He was born This Week in Georgia History, on February 3, 1898. | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | January 29 | Civil Rights icon, Andrew Young, resigns from his position in Congress to serve a higher purpose as US Ambassador to the UN. | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | January 21 | Georgia politicians convene in Milledgeville to vote on secession from the Union. | 1/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | January 15 | We reflect on the most celebrated name in American Civil Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | January 5 | Charismatic speaker, tremendous organizer, and passionate public advocate for civil rights all describe the legacy of Hosea Williams on this edition of This Week in Georgia History. | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | December 21 | One of the most notable people in the history of Georgia was born over three hundred years ago this week: James Edward Oglethorpe. | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | December 13 | This Week in Georgia History commemorates the birth of one of its finest novelists, Erskine Caldwell. | 12/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week In Georgia History | December 5 | One of the worst hotel fires in US history took place in Atlanta, Georgia on December 7, 1946, when the elegant Winecoff Hotel caught ablaze in the middle of the night and burned to the ground, taking with it 119 lives. | 12/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | December 8 | Eli Whitney's cotton gin revolutionized Southern economy and shaped the culture of slave labor for years to come. | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | November 29 | This Week in Georgia History looks back to November 25, 1961, when the members of the Albany Movement met in a church in Albany, Georgia. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | November 22 | This Week in Georgia History remembers the history Albany Movement, a landmark Civil Rights event that took place in Albany, Georgia. | 11/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | November 15 | Learn more about the most notorious military campaign in the history of the American South in this podcast. | 11/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | November 1 | James Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees select Savannah as the site to establish the first town in the colony of Georgia. | 11/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | October 27 | Discovery of Gold in Dahlonega, GA sparked America's first gold rush. This Week in Georgia History, we dig deeper into the history of this boom town | 10/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | October 24 | Displaced Protestants from England receive refuge in the Colony of Georgia. | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | October 11 | The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 14, 1964. | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week In Georgia History | October 3 | In 1949, Jesse Blayton made history by becoming the first African American owner of a radio station. This Georgia Story focuses on his pioneering station in Atlanta, GA | 10/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week In Georgia History | September 22 | Atlanta's rising black middle class met with increasing racial tensions in the early 1900s. The resulting race riot was one of the most violent in American history | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | September 13 | This Week in Georgia History recalls the opening day of the 1895 Cotton Stats and International Exposition, held in Atlanta, Georgia, the capital of the "New South." | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies | Herman Talmadge | The son of a Georgia governor, Herman Talmadge served as governor of Georgia himself before becoming a powerful United States Senator. | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories #4: Did Dinosaurs Live in Georgia? | The Hadrosaur, the Ornithomimus, the Gorgosaurus, the Deinosuchus, and the Megaladon were prehistoric creatures that existed millions of years ago. They roamed the piece of earth we now call Georgia. | 9/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | September 6 | Georgia's most famous poet is likely Sidney Lanier, a powerful voice in 19th Century American Literature. He was born on September 7, 1881, during This Week in Georgia History. | 9/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | August 30 | This Week in Georgia History recalls Georgian Frank Yerby, the first African American to write a best selling novel. | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | August 23 | At the turn of the twentieth century, a tragedy in Georgia's legal history took place in Atlanta. It came to be known as the Leo Frank Case. | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies — Eugene Talmadge | Eugene Talmadge was one of two Georgia governors elected four times. He was a powerful, but controversial leader for over two decades in Georgia state politics. | 8/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | August 16 | This Week in Georgia History remembers one of its most famous residents, author Margaret Mitchell. | 8/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories: Jerra Quinton #2 | Our Georgia Story today comes from Jerra Quinton. Jerra is the Executive Director of the Trail of Tears Association, which supports the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. The Trail wends its way across the country from Georgia to Oklahoma. Jerra lives in Arkansas. Her Cherokee heritage goes back generations. Today she remembers an ancestor who embarked on the Trail of Tears at the age of one hundred. | 8/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories: Jerra Quinton #1 | Our Georgia Story today comes from Jerra Quinton. Jerra is the Executive Director of the Trail of Tears Association, which supports the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. The Trail wends its way across the country from Georgia to Oklahoma. Jerra lives in Arkansas. Her Cherokee heritage goes back generations. Today she remembers an ancestor who embarked on the Trail of Tears at the age of one hundred. | 8/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories: Patsy Edgar | In the 1830s, the United States forcibly removed Native Americans from their homes and land across the Southeast, including Georgia. The government wanted the land for white settlers. Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, and Muscogee were uprooted from their lives and marched across the country to territory in what is now Oklahoma. Because of disease, weather, and starvation, thousands died on the long horrific odyssey. The forced migration is known as “The Trail of Tears.” Our Georgia Story today comes from Patsy Edgar. Patsy is retired from the Internal Revenue Service and a member of the Cherokee Nation. She is secretary of the Trail of Tears Association, an organization formed to support the Trail of Tears National Historic trail, which wends its way across the country from Georgia to Oklahoma. Patsy founded the Georgia chapter of the Association, and she spoke with us about their first meeting. | 8/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | August 9 | This Week in Georgia History recalls crucial Civil War events around August 9, 1864, when William T. Sherman bombarded the city of Atlanta with thousands of rounds of cannon fire. | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies — Elijah Clarke | Elijah Clarke became a hero of the American Revolution in the Battle of Kettle Creek. | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies — Benjamin Mays | Dr. Benjamin Mays, longtime president of prestigious Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated his life to educating himself and others. | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History | Week of August 2 | This Week in Georgia History remembers politician George Busbee, whose lasting legacy as Governor is the constitution of 1983. Busbee was born this week, on August 7, 1927. | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories — Signers of the Constitution | Button Gwinnet, George Walton, and Lyman Hall. Three men from Georgia who will long be remembered for their central places in the history of their state and their country. | 7/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biography - Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Charlayne Hunter-Gault was the first African American woman to attend the University of Georgia. Hunter-Gault endured threats and constant racism in her trailblazing time at UGA. She went on to become an award-winning, international journalist | 7/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: July 26, 2009 | Native Americans lived across the Southeastern United States for generations before the spread of European settlers in the 18th century. The Cherokee tribe was one of the largest groups of indigenous people then. It played a key role in Georgia’s early history through trading and allegiances in territorial wars. | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: July 19, 2009 | This Week in Georgia History harkens back to the summer of 1996. On July 19, the eyes of the world turned to Georgia to witness the opening ceremonies of the Centennial Summer Olympic Games. | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: July 12, 2009 | This Week in Georgia History remembers July 15, 1870, five years after the Civil War, when the United States Congress officially re-admitted the state of Georgia into the union. Georgia was the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted. | 7/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: July 6, 2009 | An historic battle in the history of the state of Georgia took place during This Week in Georgia History. Led by Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe, English colonists fought off a fierce Spanish invasion along the coast on July 7, 1742. | 7/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: June 29, 2009 | This Week in Georgia History looks backs to July 1, 1991, when President George H.W. Bush nominated Georgian Clarence Thomas to serve on the Supreme Court. | 6/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: June 22, 2009 | An extraordinary Georgian was born during This Week in Georgia History. African-American Alonzo Herndon began his life as a slave but ended it as the president of a major American company. | 6/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Ellis Arnall | As governor, young Ellis Arnall sought to change the image of Georgia from a backwards rural state to a progressive one. He was the youngest governor in the nation, at the time, and he is considered one of the most progressive governors in Georgia history. Georgia Stories Biographies looks back at a boy wonder of Georgia politics, Ellis Arnall. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Ivan Allen Jr. | While other city leaders across the South struggled with the eruption of racial violence in their streets during the 60s, Mayor Ivan Allen is credited with leading Atlanta, for the most part, peacefully through the racial integration. Georgia Stories Biographies examines the life of an Atlanta legend, Ivan Allen Jr. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: June 14, 2009 | This Week in Georgia History celebrates June 14, 1877, when Henry Flipper became the first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Flipper was born in Thomasville, Georgia. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History:June 8, 2009 | This Week in Georgia History marks a key moment in the political career of its most famous politician, Jimmy Carter, campaigning for President of the United States in early June, 1976. | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - William B. Hartsfield | William B. Hartsfield is likely best remembered as the mayor who turned Atlanta into a center of aviation. It began on an abandoned racetrack in 1925, a small airport called Candler Field that quickly grew in size and usage. Today, it’s the largest employer in the state of Georgia, and almost five million passengers use the airport every year. Georgia Stories Biographies looks at the life and career of the man who is often called Atlanta's "father of aviation. | 6/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: May 31, 2009 | This Week in Georgia History looks back to June 1, 1980, when the Cable News Network, or CNN, launched from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. | 5/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Rebecca Latimer Felton | The first woman to serve in the United States was from Georgia. Georgia Stories Biographies recaps the life and work of Rebecca Latimer Felton, who took the oath of office as a US Senator on November 21, 1922. | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: May 25, 2009 | Journalist and public speaker Henry Grady was born This Week in Georgia History on May 24, 1850. A charismatic speaker, Grady was known as ‘The Spokesman of the New South. | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Georgia Stories Biographies - Richard Russell | Georgia Stories Biographies looks at one of the most powerful senators of the 20th Century, Georgia's Richard B. Russell Jr.. An influential and skilled politician, Russell served in the Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 to 1971, and he oversaw a sweeping set of changes to Georgia and the nation. | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: May 17, 2009 | Rural parts of Georgia changed dramatically after the Rural Electrification Act was signed into law. This Week in Georgia History looks back at the man who signed the Act into law, US President and part-time Georgia resident, President Franklin D. Rosevelt. | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Week in Georgia History: May 10 | This Day in Georgia History recounts the morning of May 10, 1865, near the end of America's civl war. It was on this day that the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was captured by Union forces in Georgia. | 5/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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