Georgia African-American Notables

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Location: Georgia, United States
Surnames/tags: Black_Heritage Georgia African-American_Notables

US Black Heritage Project Georgia Team

The Georgia Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Georgia.

Georgia African-American Notables

Those underlined have profiles on Wikitree and can be seen by clicking on the name. The ones without underlines need to have profiles created.

• Religious Figures:

• Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), a clergyman, activist, and leader in the civil rights movement.
• Anna Ellison Butler Alexander (abt.1865-1947), first and only African-American Deaconess; also an Episcopalian Saint

• "Politicians and Government Office Holders"

• Maynard Holbrook Jackson (1938-2003), first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any major city in the South

• Entertainment Figures

• Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (1917-2005), an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist
• Otis Redding II (1941-1967), soul singer, performer, and recording artist
• Richard Wayne Penniman (1932-2020), singer-songwriter, musician, flamboyant performer better known as "Little Richard", one of the pioneers of the first wave of rock ’n’ roll

• Sports Figures

• Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson (1919-1972), first African-American in Major League Baseball

• Socialites

• Amanda America (Dickson) Toomer (abt.1849-1893), one of the wealthiest black women in nineteenth-century America

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