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Shirley Green-Reese is a civil rights activist, professor, and a researcher who rose to prominence as one of the 1963 Leesburg Stockade Girls. She was one of the fourteen African American girls who were imprisoned during the Civil Rights Movement in Dawson, Georgia and Leesburg, Georgia. [1] Green-Reese was a councilwoman in Americus, Georgia. [2]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Americus is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 16,230. It is the principal city of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area , a micropolitan area that covers Schley and Sumter counties [ 5 ] and had a combined population of 36,966 at the 2000 census .
In July 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, teenager Shirley Reese joined a peaceful protest here in Americus, Georgia, with other young Black girls.
Americus: 152 Bill Yearta: Republican 2019 Sylvester: 153 David Sampson: Democratic 2023 Albany: 154 Gerald Greene: Republican 2023 Cuthbert: 155 Matt Hatchett: Republican 2023 Dublin: 156 Leesa Hagan: Republican 2021 Lyons: 157 Bill Werkheiser: Republican 2015 Glennville: 158 Butch Parrish: Republican 1985 Swainsboro: 159 Jon G. Burns ...
The Americus Rebels moved to Thomasville for the 1952 season and were renamed as the Thomasville Tomcats. They became a Brooklyn Dodgers affiliate and changed the team name to the Thomasville Dodgers in 1953.
Americus, Georgia: Occupation: Politician: Mike Cheokas (born May 27, 1953) is an American politician from Georgia. Education. Cheokas earned a degree from Emory ...
Born in Rome, Georgia, Reeves grew up in Americus, Georgia.He attended Americus High School, where he participated in football, baseball, and basketball. [2]After Reeves missed four games with a broken collarbone during his senior season, only the University of South Carolina was interested enough to offer him a football scholarship.