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. . The front page of the first issue of the Technique Georgia county and city public school systems are administered by school boards with members elected at the local level as of 2013 all but 19 of 181 boards are elected from single-member districts Residents and activist groups in Fayette County Georgia sued the board of commissioners and school board for maintaining an election system based on at-large voting which tended to increase the power of the majority and effectively prevented minority participation on elected local boards for nearly 200 years a change to single-member districts has resulted in the African-American minority being able to elect representatives of its choice. Israel (25) 4 References Main article: History of Georgia (U.S state). .

Henry (225,813) The interior of a long-distance Amfleet II coach, Main article: History of the Atlanta Braves 2 SunTrust Plaza 871 (265) 60 1992 77th-tallest building in the world 25th-tallest in the U.S. In 1959 a meeting of 2,741 students voted by an overwhelming majority to endorse integration of qualified applicants regardless of race Three years after the meeting and one year after the University of Georgia's violent integration Georgia Tech became the first university in the Deep South to desegregate without a court order There was little reaction to this by Tech students; like the city of Atlanta described by former Mayor William Hartsfield they seemed "too busy to hate" in the 1967-68 academic year 28 students out of 7,526 were black in 1968 William Peace became the first black instructor and Marle Carter became the first black member of the homecoming court in 1964 Dr Calvin Huey became the first black player to play at Bobby Dodd stadium when he took the field for Navy the first black person to play for Georgia Tech was Eddie McAshan in 1970, 1.4 The Assembly arrives in Milledgeville The Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta with the distinctive gold dome; Sports Cape Verde (4) Atlanta is home to professional franchises for four major team sports: the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer the Braves who moved to Atlanta in 1966 were established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 and are the oldest continually operating professional sports franchise in the United States the Braves won the World Series in 1995 and had an unprecedented run of 14 straight divisional championships from 1991 to 2005 the Braves have a new home as of 2017 having moved from Turner Field to Suntrust Park which is in the Atlanta Metropolitan area 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cumberland/Galleria Georgia.