Book Description
Hear the excitement and feel the emotion of the Georgia football experience in this touch, listen and look adventure book.
Author : Piggy Toes Press
Publisher : Piggy Toes Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 2009-12-20
Category : Football
ISBN : 9781615240890
Hear the excitement and feel the emotion of the Georgia football experience in this touch, listen and look adventure book.
Author : Nicole Goss
Publisher : College Prowler, Inc
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781596581555
Provides a look at the University of Georgia from the students' viewpoint.
Author : Calvin Trillin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 082036066X
In January 1961, following eighteen months of litigation that culminated in a federal court order, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia. Calvin Trillin, then a reporter for Time Magazine, attended the court fight that led to the admission of Holmes and Hunter and covered their first week at the university—a week that began in relative calm, moved on to a riot and the suspension of the two students "for their own safety," and ended with both returning to the campus under a new court order. Shortly before their graduation in 1963, Trillin came back to Georgia to determine what their college lives had been like. He interviewed not only Holmes and Hunter but also their families, friends, and fellow students, professors, and university administrators. The result was this book—a sharply detailed portrait of how these two young people faced coldness, hostility, and occasional understanding on a southern campus in the midst of a great social change.
Author : Thomas G. Dyer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 1985-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820323985
Thomas G. Dyer’s definitive history of the University of Georgia celebrates the bicentennial of the school’s founding with a richly varied account of people and events. More than an institutional history, The University of Georgia is a contribution to the understanding of the course and development of higher education in the South. The Georgia legislature in January 1785 approved a charter establishing “a public seat of learning in this state.” For the next sixteen years the university’s trustees struggled to convert its endowment--forty thousand acres of land in the backwoods--into enough money to support a school. By 1801 the university had a president, a campus on the edge of Indian country, and a few students. Over the next two centuries the small liberal arts college that educated the sons of lawyers and planters grew into a major research university whose influence extends far beyond the boundaries of the state. The course of that growth has not always been smooth. This volume includes careful analyses of turning points in the university’s history: the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of land-grant colleges, the coming of intercollegiate athletics, the admission of women to undergraduate programs, the enrollment of thousands of World War II veterans, and desegregation. All are considered in the context of what was occurring elsewhere in the South and in the nation.
Author : Brad M. Epstein
Publisher : 101 Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : 9781932530179
Simple text and illustrations explain university life.
Author : Mary Frances Early
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820369519
The Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefully maps the road to her 1961 decision to apply to the master’s program in music education at the University of Georgia, becoming one of only three African American students. With this personal journey we are privy to her prolonged and difficult admission process; her experiences both troubling and hopeful while on the Athens campus; and her historic graduation in 1962. Early shares fascinating new details of her regular conversations with civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. She also recounts her forty-eight years as a music educator in the state of Georgia, the Southeast, and at the national level. She continued to blaze trails within the field and across professional associations. After Early earned her master’s and specialist’s degrees, she became an acclaimed Atlanta music educator, teaching music at segregated schools and later being promoted to music director of the entire school system. In 1981 Early became the first African American elected president of the Georgia Music Educators Association. After she retired from working in public schools in 1994, Early taught at Morehouse College and Spelman College and served as chair of the music department at Clark Atlanta University. Early details her welcome reconciliation with UGA, which had failed for decades to publicly recognize its first Black graduate. In 2018 she received the President’s Medal, and her portrait is one of only two women’s to hang in the Administration Building. Most recently, Early was honored by the naming of the College of Education in her honor.
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Publisher : C Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : College student orientation
ISBN : 9781591868064
CGuide Georgia is written by students for students. It includes information on the best eats, local services, recreation and entertainment options, as well as insider tips to the need to know information at the University of Georgia. With an enthusiastic and positive voice, the campus editors dispense helpful advice for navigating the first year of college, along with lists of the best services available to take care of all those things mom would do if they were home.
Author : University of Georgia
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Grace Elizabeth Hale
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469654881
In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination. Soon, more Athens bands followed the B-52's into the vanguard of the new American music that would come to be known as "alternative," including R.E.M., who catapulted over the course of the 1980s to the top of the musical mainstream. As acts like the B-52's, R.E.M., and Pylon drew the eyes of New York tastemakers southward, they discovered in Athens an unexpected mecca of music, experimental art, DIY spirit, and progressive politics--a creative underground as vibrant as any to be found in the country's major cities. In Athens in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Cool Town reveals the passion, vitality, and enduring significance of a bohemian scene that became a model for others to follow. Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the Athens scene as a student, small-business owner, and band member. Blending personal recollection with a historian's eye, she reconstructs the networks of bands, artists, and friends that drew on the things at hand to make a new art of the possible, transforming American culture along the way. In a story full of music and brimming with hope, Hale shows how an unlikely cast of characters in an unlikely place made a surprising and beautiful new world.
Author : E. Merton Coulter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820331996
Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered state university, the author recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the days when the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies ruled the campus; and the vast commencement crowds that overwhelmed Athens to feast on oratory and watermelons.