Georgia
Groups call on Ga. governor to diversify bench
A coalition of civil rights and attorney groups says African-American judges are being replaced by white appointees in one of Georgia’s most heavily populated black counties and called Thursday for Georgia’s governor to fill vacancies with judges who reflect their communities’ diversity. The coalition, led by the Rev. Joseph Lowery, said black representation on the [...]
NAACP launches voter registration push in Georgia
Saying it won’t let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout, the NAACP on Wednesday launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters before the Nov. 6 elections. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says these groups could be the ones most affected by laws requiring [...]
African-Americans increase their purchasing power in Georgia
A new University of Georgia report shows African-Americans have increased their purchasing power in the state. Georgia remains the 5th largest African-American Consumer Market in the U.S. But according to a report produced by UGA’s Selig Center for Economic Growth, buying power for blacks in Georgia has risen to more than $73 billion dollars a [...]
Racial language in marker at center of controversy
The school board in an Atlanta suburb is reviewing plans for a historic marker after a board member objected to the language used to refer to African-Americans. At issue is a marker for the all-black Lemon Street School, which operated in Marietta during the era of segregation. The Marietta Daily Journal reports (http://bit.ly/JfdE7V) that the [...]
SCLC papers open for display
For the first time in the 55-year-old civil rights organization’s history, hundreds of boxes of Southern Christian Leadership Conference documents and photographs are now available for public viewing and a historic trove it is. The SCLC collection opened this month at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library and includes the contents of 918 [...]
