who was the first african american to rest in the state capital of Georgia?
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Corretta Scott King has just been buried after resting in the Georgia State Capital.  She's also the first female.
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Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday about the festival of the first harvest of the crops. It begins on December 26, and lasts for seven days. The name Kwanzaa, sometimes spelled Kwanza, comes from a phrase which means "first fruits" in Swahili, an East African language.
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I traced the early history of GA to here: \n\nCherokee and Creek Indians lived in Georgia when Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, first traveled parts of Georgia in 1540. By 1566, forts were built along the Atlantic coast, including the first in Georgia on St. Catherine's Island. However, no permanent settlements were established.  \n\nIn 1732, English King George II granted a charter for the last of the 13th colony in America. There were originally twenty one trustees named in the 1732 charter "The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia". Over the period of the trusteeship (1732-1755), fifty more were added. For an alphabetical listing of all the trustees, click here. For more detailed information on the institutional organization and development of the province, please see Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust by James Ross McCain (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1917).
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That's in Fulton County in Georgia
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http://www.promotega.org/fld05026/Georgia.html\nhttp://ngeorgia.com/revolution/amrev11a.html
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Atlanta is the capital and largest city of Georgia, a state of the United States of America. It is the county seat of Fulton County, although a portion of the city (the 1909 annex) is located in DeKalb County. According to the latest census estimates (as of December, 2004), the city had a population of 425,000 and the fast-growing Atlanta metropolitan area totaled 4,708,297, making it the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the United States and the 41st-largest city proper. Atlanta is arguably a poster-child for cities worldwide experiencing rapid urban sprawl, population growth, and commercial development. As a result, Atlanta is a common case study for college students who study Urban Geography around the globe.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Baptist minister and American political activist who was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement. King won the Nobel Peace Prize [1] before being assassinated in 1968. In 1977, King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by Jimmy Carter. For his promotion of non-violence and racial equality, King is considered a peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world. Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor.
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South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama.
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Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, Athens
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Athens, Georgia\nSyracuse, New York\nIthaca, New York\nSparta, New Jersey\nMarathon, Florida\nAchilles, Virginia\nCrete, Illinois\nThebes, Illinois\nCarthage, New York\nAttica, New York\nMacedon, New York\nCorinth, New York
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the first African\nAmerican student to attend The University of Alabama
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I used to live there from 1980-1984.  I live about 60 miles west of Tuscaloosa now in Columbus, Mississippi.  I go every once and a while to do some shopping, but not that often. I remember the day that Bear Bryant died.  I was in second grade I think, and school let out early because of it.  My mom took me to a department store named Wilson's and bought me a box that had ET and Reece's Pieces in it.  Hell of a memory, huh?!
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From ga..town about 1 hour from Atlanta...great clubs, that have celebs passing through all the time.\nHit me up.
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There's one in Atlanta GA
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I have NO Idea who the first african american to be in the Rodeo hall of fame was.... But Bill Picket was the African american who invented Bulldoging..But I don't know if he was in tthe Rodeo Hall of fame!
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See if you can find the book, Defining The Peace, by, Jennifer E. Brooks..  It , I think has what you are asking. James Oglethorpe founded Ga. in 1733.
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Well, there were two Martin Luther King Jr. marches there in 1987, and I was there for the second one. Forsyth County had some kind of reputation for racism, I didn't really know the history. I think the resident black population living in the county at the time was maybe in the double digits. Not many at all, considering how close it was to Atlanta.\n\nNot sure exactly why someone decided to have a MLK march there in the first place, but that first one in 1987 was greeted with rocks and bottles. When word spread that the organizers were planning a second march, the city of Atlanta arranged for buses to take between 2000 and 10,000 marchers from the rendesvous point in Atlanta out to Cumming, the county seat. But then about 20,000 people showed up.\n\nI was a white college kid, almost 20 years old. I'd caught a ride with an art professor from my college in Tennessee, and I was trying to get on a bus that was already full. Somebody nudged me and pointed to the front of the bus. Coretta Scott King was sitting in the front seat. I'll never forget seeing her there. \n\nWe'd been asked not to drive ourselves to Forsyth County, but it was obvious we'd have to. Our little pack of college students walked back to the art professor's van and climbed in. Not everybody had their own transportation, though. We saw a black man and his young son walking away, looking all dejected. The professor stuck his head out the window and asked, "Do you want a ride to Forsyth County?"\n\n"Sure!" they climbed in, too.\n\nSomewhere between a convoy and a traffic jam, that was the trip to Cumming. People--mostly men--kept getting out of their cars and running down to pee in the bushes at the side of the highway.\n\nThe art professor was chatting up the older of our new passengers. "Isn't this great? It's just like the 60s! Did you march against the War back then?"\n\n"Uhm, no," said the black man. "I was a little busy. I was in Vietnam."\n\nThat was the thing, see. The rich white kids got out of the draft by going to graduate school and earning doctorates in art, while the disadvantaged black kids who never had the same eduational opportunity got put on a plane for Southeast Asia.\n\nThey didn't exactly have segregated parking areas, so our little echo of the Civil Rights Movement had to park in the same parking area as the Ku Klux Klan. That was scary to me. \n\nWhen I saw folks running in to the Burger King, that was silly to me. A lot of the folks who couldn't wait to economically support the same community we were protesting were black. But if I've learned anything since then, I've learned that racism is not a place. \n\nLater on, our new friend said he was glad to be marching on the right side this time. I was glad the law enforcement officers were there to protect the right side, unlike back in the 50s and 60s. About six helicopters were circling overhead. They were probably TV news choppers, but they really made me feel like something important was happening. \n\nThe State Troopers and Georgia Bureau of Investigation folks stood about four feet apart on both sides of the street for the entire parade route. They separated us from the KKK and other racists. I saw one guy wearing a shirt that glorified the man convicted of killing Martin Luther King Jr. It read, "James Earl Ray: National Hero". That made me angry, but we just kept marching peacefully by, six abreast. \n\nNot all of the people who lived in Forsyth County were racists, I'm sure, and not all of the racists in Cumming that day lived in Forsyth County. Some had come in special for the march, just as we had. And they were vastly outnumbered. \n\nOprah Winfrey hosted a show there that week. I remember there was a white man in the audience who said that not all blacks were n_____rs. Only troublemakers, like the ones in that march were n_____rs.\n\n"Huh! Whaddya know!" I sa