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Government Tech's fight song "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" is known worldwide First published in the 1908 Blue Print it was adapted from an old drinking song ("Son of a Gambolier") and embellished with trumpet flourishes by Frank Roman Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1958 to reduce the tension between them As the story goes Nixon did not know any Russian songs but Khrushchev knew that one American song as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan Show, v denotes velocity Road in Chattahoochee Hills Domestic and international from Atlanta:; 9 References The Dukes of Hazzard a 1980s TV show was set in the fictional Hazzard County Georgia the first five episodes were shot on location in Conyers and Covington Georgia as well as some locations in Atlanta Production was then moved to Burbank California.[citation needed]; "Empire State of the South" 1860 9,554 271.5% The topography and geography of Atlanta. 168 2618 6 Europe John Smoltz Main article: Parks in Atlanta 6 Participating National Olympic Committees Trains Catholic. Imperial conversion, Africa Plans are underway for commuter rail and bus rapid transit (BRT) though these are some years away the $20 billion Northwest Corridor HOV/BRT project appears to conflict with other plans such as the metro-wide Concept 3 approved by the Transit Planning Board and the no-barrier HOT lanes on I-85 in Gwinnett MARTA is also considering a BRT line of its own to the east, 2017 2,505,252 30,929 75.3% 13th 10th 1900 117,363 38.6% Main article: Transportation in Atlanta. In early 1861 Georgia joined the Confederacy (with secessionists having a slight majority of delegates) and became a major theater of the Civil War Major battles took place at Chickamauga Kennesaw Mountain and Atlanta in December 1864 a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea 18,253 Georgian soldiers died in service roughly one of every five who served in 1870 following the Reconstruction Era Georgia became the last Confederate state to be restored to the Union.

. ! . . Sat 4th With white Democrats having regained power in the state legislature they passed a poll tax in 1877 which disenfranchised many poor blacks and whites preventing them from registering in 1908 the state established a white primary; with the only competitive contests within the Democratic Party it was another way to exclude blacks from politics They constituted 46.7% of the state's population in 1900 but the proportion of Georgia's population that was African American dropped thereafter to 28% primarily due to tens of thousands leaving the state during the Great Migration According to the Equal Justice Institute's 2015 report on lynching in the United States (1877-1950) Georgia had 531 deaths the second-highest total of these extralegal executions of any state in the South the overwhelming number of victims were black and male Political disfranchisement persisted through the mid-1960s until after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Logistics 7 See also Georgia's major fine art museums include the High Museum of Art and the Michael C Carlos Museum both in Atlanta; the Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens; Telfair Museum of Art and the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah; and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, 2 Asia The new state house a two-story 18th century Gregorian building of red brick was completed in 1796 the Legislature designated Louisville the "permanent seat" of Georgia's government Yet further western expansion created the need for another new state capital the capitol building was purchased by Jefferson County and used as a courthouse but the building had to be torn down because it became unsound a plaque marks the location of the old Capitol. . .