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Rodney Mims Cook Sr.

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Rodney Mims Cook (March 23, 1924 – January 13, 2013) was a Georgia public figure who served for over twenty years as an Atlanta city alderman and member of the Georgia House of Representatives. [1]

55 relations: African Americans, Alderman, Atlanta, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Falcons, Atlantic Station, Bachelor of Arts, Bank of America, Buckhead, Cascade Heights, Chairman, Civil and political rights, Coca-Cola, Democratic Party (United States), English Avenue and Vine City, Fulton County, Georgia, George Busbee, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia House of Representatives, Georgia Republican Party, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Insurance, Interstate Highway System, Ivan Allen Jr., Jamestown, Virginia, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Julian Bond, Kamikaze, Ku Klux Klan, Library of Congress, List of Governors of Georgia, List of mayors of Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Sr., Millennium Gate Museum, National Monuments Foundation, Newt Gingrich, Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Paul Coverdell, Reconstruction era, Republican Party (United States), Robert W. Woodruff, Rodney Cook Sr. Park, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., Sam Massell, United States Congress, United States Navy, Urban renewal, Washington and Lee University, ..., Wells Fargo, White people, William B. Hartsfield, World War II, Zoning. Expand index (5 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Atlanta Falcons

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta.

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Atlantic Station

Atlantic Station is a neighborhood on the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States comprising a retail district, office space, condominiums, townhomes and apartment buildings.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Bank of America

Bank of America Corporation (abbreviated as BofA) is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Buckhead

Buckhead is the uptown district of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, comprising approximately the northern fifth of the city.

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Cascade Heights

Cascade Heights is an affluent neighborhood in southwest Atlanta.

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Chairman

The chairman (also chairperson, chairwoman or chair) is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke (also Pemberton's Cola at certain Georgian vendors), is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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English Avenue and Vine City

English Avenue and Vine City are two adjacent and closely linked neighborhoods of Atlanta, Georgia.

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Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County is a county in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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George Busbee

George Dekle Busbee Sr. (August 7, 1927 – July 16, 2004), was an American politician who served as the 77th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1975 to 1983, and a senior partner at King & Spalding thereafter.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Georgia House of Representatives

The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state legislature) of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia Republican Party

The Georgia Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, also known as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, or Hartsfield–Jackson, is an international airport located south of Atlanta's central business district, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss.

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Interstate Highway System

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.

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Ivan Allen Jr.

Ivan Earnest Allen Jr. (March 15, 1911 – July 2, 2003), was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

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Jamestown, Virginia

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

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John Adams

John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the first Vice President (1789–1797) and second President of the United States (1797–1801).

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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, and treaty negotiator, United States Senator, U.S. Representative (Congressman) from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.

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Julian Bond

Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor and writer.

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Kamikaze

, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with conventional air attacks.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Governors of Georgia

The Governor of Georgia is the head of the executive branch of Georgia's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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List of mayors of Atlanta

The Mayor is the highest elected official in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Martin Luther King Sr.

Martin Luther King Sr. (born Michael King; December 19, 1899November 11, 1984), was an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Millennium Gate Museum

The Millennium Gate Museum (also known as The Gate) is a triumphal arch and Georgia history museum located in Atlanta, on 17th Street in the Atlantic Station district of Midtown.

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National Monuments Foundation

The National Monuments Foundation is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to building monuments for the ages which will enrich the communities in which they are built.

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Newt Gingrich

Newton Leroy Gingrich (né McPherson; born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author, born in Pennsylvania, later representing Georgia in Congress, and ultimately serving as 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.

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Pacific Ocean theater of World War II

The Pacific Ocean theater, during World War II, was a major theater of the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.

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Paul Coverdell

Paul Douglas Coverdell (January 20, 1939 – July 18, 2000) was a United States Senator from Georgia, elected for the first time in 1992 and re-elected in 1998, and director of the Peace Corps from 1989 until 1991.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Robert W. Woodruff

Robert Winship Woodruff (December 6, 1889 – March 7, 1985) was the president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1954.

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Rodney Cook Sr. Park

Rodney Cook Sr.

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Rodney Mims Cook Jr.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr., an authority on classical architecture, urban planning and education, served as both an early board member of New York’s Institute of Classical Architecture and Art as well as a founding trustee of the Prince of Wales’s American Foundation, a 501(c)(3) in the US.

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Sam Massell

Samuel A. Massell Jr. (born August 26, 1927) is a businessman who served from 1970 to 1974 as the 53rd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom, urban renewal or urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay.

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Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee or W&L) is a private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, United States.

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Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with central offices throughout the country.

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White people

White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.

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William B. Hartsfield

William Berry Hartsfield, Sr. (March 1, 1890 – February 22, 1971), was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zoning

Zoning is the process of dividing land in a municipality into zones (e.g. residential, industrial) in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Mims_Cook_Sr.

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