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    • Introducing the 2021 Georgia Trustees: Juanita Baranco

      She calls herself an introvert, but very few others who know Juanita Baranco would use that word to describe her. Executive, attorney, advocate, community activist, wife, mother, and leader…

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    • Digital Education for Georgia’s Students: Newspapers in Education

      Each year the Georgia Historical Society (GHS) partners with the Georgia Press Association (GPA) to publish relevant, standards-based educational resources for schools across Georgia called Newspapers in…

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    • Collection Highlights: Letters from Lois

      This week GHS is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day or Operation Overlord. Using materials from the GHS…

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    • Collection Highlights: A pin from the 75th Anniversary of Tallulah Falls School, from the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs

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    • Marker Monday: Spelman College Women Who Serve

      Inspired by the theme presented by the National Women’s History Alliance, for National Women’s History Month (NWHM) 2019, “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence,” and in partnership with…

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    • Collection Highlights: Letter from Helen Dortch Longstreet encouraging Frances Perkins, United States Secretary of Labor

      Letter from Helen Dortch Longstreet to Frances Perkins, United States Secretary of Labor under FDR, 1934, Helen Dortch Longstreet papers…

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    • Marker Monday: Home of Alice Harrell Strickland — Georgia’s First Woman Mayor

      Inspired by the theme presented by the National Women’s History Alliance, for National Women’s History Month (NWHM) 2019, “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence,” and in partnership with…

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    • Collection Highlights: Health Center Nurses in 1922

      Health Center nurses in front of a building at Charlton and Drayton, Foltz Photography Studio (Savannah,…

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    • Classroom Connections for Georgia Studies: Women’s History in Georgia’s Classrooms

      Inspired by the theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019, #Balance for Better, and in partnership with the League of Women Voters Coastal Georgia for…

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    • Collection Highlights: 1968 NAACP Newsletter

      Inspired by the theme presented by the…

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