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Transportation 89 94 WSB-TV in Atlanta is the state's oldest television station having begun operations in 1948 WSB was only the second such operation founded in the Southern U.S trailing only WTVR in Richmond Virginia.[citation needed]. Main article: Venues of the 1996 Summer Olympics, Georgia 10.svg State Route 10, 13 Tree canopy Promenade II 7 Incidents The Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association began in 1946 as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks playing in Moline Illinois the team moved to Milwaukee in 1951 then to St Louis in 1955 where they won their sole NBA Championship as the St Louis Hawks in 1968 they came to Atlanta. . 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.

91 2717 In 2004 a stalemate in federal support of Amtrak forced cutbacks in services and routes as well as resumption of deferred maintenance in fiscal 2004 and 2005 Congress appropriated about $1.2 billion for Amtrak $300 million more than President George W Bush had requested However the company's board requested $1.8 billion through fiscal 2006 the majority of which (about $1.3 billion) would be used to bring infrastructure rolling stock and motive power back to a state of good repair in Congressional testimony the DOT Inspector General confirmed that Amtrak would need at least $1.4 billion to $1.5 billion in fiscal 2006 and $2 billion in fiscal 2007 just to maintain the status quo in 2006 Amtrak received just under $1.4 billion with the condition that Amtrak would reduce (but not eliminate) food and sleeper service losses Thus dining service was simplified and now requires two fewer on-board service workers Only Auto Train and Empire Builder services continue regular made-on-board meal service in 2010 the Senate approved a bill to provide $1.96 billion to Amtrak but cut the approval for high-speed rail to a $1 billion appropriation, Georgia 400 is the main corridor serving the north-central suburbs and was the only toll road in the metropolitan Atlanta area as of November 23 2013 the tolls ended and the toll plazas are demolished it reaches into the northern portion of Fulton County and gradually turns northeast before entering Forsyth County the controlled-access portion terminates just northeast of the city of Cumming to the south it terminates and merges into southbound I-85 just south of the Buckhead business district Cumming/Dahlonega is used on I-285 as the northbound sign and Atlanta/Buckhead as the southbound From I-85 northbound it uses Buckhead/Cumming. The Georgia Ports Authority owns and operates four ports in the state: Port of Savannah Port of Brunswick Port Bainbridge and Port Columbus the Port of Savannah is the fourth largest seaport in the United States importing and exporting a total of 2.3 million TEUs per year the Port of Savannah's Garden City Terminal is the largest single container terminal in North America Several major companies including Target IKEA and Heineken operate distribution centers in close proximity to the Port of Savannah.