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class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">54th and 56th <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Atlanta" title="List of mayors of Atlanta">Mayor of Atlanta</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1974–1982</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sam_Massell" title="Sam Massell">Sam Massell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Young" title="Andrew Young">Andrew Young</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" 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("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Morehouse_College" title="Morehouse College">Morehouse College</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Central_University" title="North Carolina Central University">North Carolina Central University</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Attorney-at-law" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney-at-law">Attorney</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">Politician</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr.</b> (March 23, 1938 – June 23, 2003) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 54th <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Atlanta" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Atlanta">mayor of Atlanta, Georgia</a> from 1974 to 1982, and again as the city's 56th mayor from 1990 to 1994. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>, he was the first <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">Black</a> mayor of <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> and of any major city in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">South</a>; his three terms made him the second longest-serving mayor in the city's history, after six-term mayor <a href="/wiki/William_B._Hartsfield" title="William B. Hartsfield">William B. Hartsfield</a>. </p><p>He is notable also for public works projects, primarily the new Maynard H. Jackson International terminal at the Atlanta airport, and for greatly increasing minority business participation in the city. After his death, the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport was renamed <a href="/wiki/Hartsfield%E2%80%93Jackson_Atlanta_International_Airport" title="Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport">Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport</a> to honor his service to the expansion of the airport, the city and its people. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_history,_background_and_personal_life"><span id="Family_history.2C_background_and_personal_life"></span>Family history, background and personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Family history, background and personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jackson was born into a family that valued education and political activism. His maternal grandfather was <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a> leader <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Dobbs" title="John Wesley Dobbs">John Wesley Dobbs</a>, who worked to successfully overturn the <a href="/wiki/White_primary" title="White primary">white primary</a> in Georgia. He also gained the hiring of black police officers in Atlanta and lighting of Auburn Street, the main retail street of the black community. Maynard's mother Irene (Dobbs) Jackson was one of six daughters; all graduated from <a href="/wiki/Spelman_College" title="Spelman College">Spelman College</a>, encouraged by their parents. Irene earned a doctorate in France and became a professor of French at the college. </p><p>His father Maynard Holbrook Jackson was a <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> minister from <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>. He became active in civil rights in <a href="/wiki/Dallas,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas, Texas">Dallas, Texas</a>, where he had grown up after his family moved. His grandfather Alexander Stephens Jackson had been a Baptist minister and educator in Louisiana and Texas. The young Jackson's father died when he was fifteen; his grandfather Dobbs became even more influential in his life.<sup id="cite_ref-nga_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jackson attended <a href="/wiki/David_T._Howard_High_School" title="David T. Howard High School">David T. Howard High School</a> in Atlanta<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Morehouse_College" title="Morehouse College">Morehouse College</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Historically_black_college" class="mw-redirect" title="Historically black college">historically black college</a> for men in Atlanta, graduating in 1956 at the age of eighteen. He sang in the <a href="/wiki/Morehouse_College_Glee_Club" title="Morehouse College Glee Club">Morehouse College Glee Club</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mcgc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After attending the <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a> Law School for a short time, Jackson held several jobs, including selling encyclopedias. He returned to graduate studies, attending the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Central_University" title="North Carolina Central University">North Carolina Central University</a> Law School. He graduated with a law degree in 1964. He was a member of <a href="/wiki/Alpha_Phi_Alpha" title="Alpha Phi Alpha">Alpha Phi Alpha</a> fraternity. </p><p>Jackson married <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/bunnie-jackson-ransom-41">Burnella "Bunnie" Hayes</a>, in 1965. The couple had three children, Elizabeth, Brooke, Maynard III.<sup id="cite_ref-nga_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to their divorce, Bunnie Jackson founded <i>First Class, Inc</i>. She was the first African-American woman to own a public relations and marketing firm in Atlanta. </p><p>Jackson married <a href="/wiki/Valerie_Richardson" class="mw-redirect" title="Valerie Richardson">Valerie Richardson</a> in 1977, to whom he was married for 25 years until his death. They have two daughters, Valerie and Alexandra.<sup id="cite_ref-nga_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Valerie Jackson hosts <i>Between the Lines</i> each weekend on the WABE-FM radio station, the Atlanta Public Broadcasting station. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jackson worked as a lawyer for the <a href="/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board" title="National Labor Relations Board">National Labor Relations Board</a> and a legal services firm. He joined the Democratic Party.<sup id="cite_ref-nga_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1968, when Jackson was 30 years old, he decided to run for the US Senate against incumbent <a href="/wiki/Herman_Talmadge" title="Herman Talmadge">Herman Talmadge</a>. His campaign was underfunded, and he lost, but Jackson won in Atlanta, gaining prominence in the city, which had a substantial black minority. The following year, he built on his strength, gaining election as vice mayor, who was presiding officer of the board of aldermen. At that time, Atlanta modified its city charter, strengthening the position of mayor and renaming the vice mayor as president of the city council (aldermen were now city council members).<sup id="cite_ref-nga_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1970, Jackson became Atlanta's first black Vice-Mayor, his first elected position which he held for four years.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year, Jackson supported <a href="/wiki/Sanitation_worker" title="Sanitation worker">sanitation workers</a> in the city who had gone on strike, with his support contributing to their receiving a higher wage.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1973, Jackson was elected with 60 percent of the vote, as the first African-American mayor of Atlanta and any major southern city; he was supported by a coalition of white liberals/moderates and African Americans. At the age of 35, he unseated incumbent <a href="/wiki/Sam_Massell" title="Sam Massell">Sam Massell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nga_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his first term, Jackson worked to improve race relations in and around Atlanta after the polarization caused by the election campaign. As mayor, he led the beginnings and much of the progress on several huge public-works projects for the city and region. Affirmative action programs helped minority and women-owned businesses to participate.<sup id="cite_ref-nga_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nga-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He helped arrange for the upgrade of the then-William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport's huge terminal (now Domestic Terminal) to modern standards. Jackson <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_freeway_revolts" title="Atlanta freeway revolts">strongly opposed the construction of freeways through in-town neighborhoods</a>, knowing that such actions destroyed thriving communities.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1977, Jackson fired over 900 sanitation workers during the <a href="/wiki/1977_Atlanta_sanitation_strike" title="1977 Atlanta sanitation strike">1977 Atlanta sanitation strike</a>. Following this act of <a href="/wiki/Strikebreaking" class="mw-redirect" title="Strikebreaking">strikebreaking</a>, many of the workers returned to work by the end of the year.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jackson was mayor through the period when the separate <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Atlanta_Rapid_Transit_Authority" title="Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority">Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority</a> (MARTA) obtained a large amount of federal funding for a <a href="/wiki/Rapid_transit" title="Rapid transit">rapid-transit</a> rail-line system, when construction began, and when MARTA began its first rail transit service in Atlanta and in <a href="/wiki/DeKalb_County,_Georgia" title="DeKalb County, Georgia">DeKalb County</a> in 1979 and during its continual expansion thereafter. As mayor, he celebrated in September 1990 when Atlanta was selected as the host city for the <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympic_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="1996 Summer Olympic Games">1996 Summer Olympic Games</a>. As mayor, he accepted the Olympic flag at the 1992 closing ceremonies in <a href="/wiki/Barcelona,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Barcelona, Spain">Barcelona, Spain</a>. He oversaw the completion of many planned public works projects, such as improvements to freeways and parks, and the completion of <a href="/wiki/Freedom_Parkway" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom Parkway">Freedom Parkway</a>, which were expedited from 1990 to 1996 in preparation for the Olympic Games that began in August 1996. </p><p>During Jackson's second term as mayor, the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_child_murders" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta child murders">Atlanta Child Murders</a> were ongoing between 1979 and 1981. He supported the Atlanta Police and other police forces in the area but also worked to calm public tensions aroused by the serial killings of black children. The accused killer, <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Williams" title="Wayne Williams">Wayne Williams</a>, was caught in 1981. Williams was convicted to serve two consecutive life sentences for the murder of two adult males, but never charged with or tried for the murder of any of the child victims. He is currently being held in <a href="/wiki/Telfair_State_Prison" title="Telfair State Prison">Telfair State Prison</a>. </p><p>In 1974, Jackson received the Samuel S. Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversy">Controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Maynard Jackson heightened racial tensions in May 1974 when he attempted to fire the incumbent white police chief, John Inman. Jackson believed the change was needed to grapple with Atlanta's growing crime problem and charges by the black community of police racial insensitivity toward African Americans. </p><p>In August 1974 Mayor Jackson appointed A. Reginald Eaves, an activist and personal friend, as Public Safety Commissioner. Eaves was criticized for lacking police experience. He generated controversy by appointing an ex-convict as his personal secretary and for what was considered as affirmative action in the police department, which some described as "reverse discrimination."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jackson fired Eaves after revelation of a police exam cheating scandal.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eaves was later convicted by a federal jury of extortion in 1988 after selling his vote on two rezonings.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1991 Jackson awarded transgender supermodel <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Cossey" title="Caroline Cossey">Caroline Cossey</a> (known under the stage name "Tula") honorary citizenship to Atlanta, though he later rescinded it after he learned that she was transgender, saying “I wouldn’t have given it to somebody whose claim to fame was being transsexual” despite Cossey having a career for many years before her gender reassignment was public knowledge. Cossey stated that she felt insulted by his decision.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Atlanta's_crime"><span id="Atlanta.27s_crime"></span>Atlanta's crime</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Atlanta's crime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to the 1979–1981 <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Child_Murders" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta Child Murders">Atlanta Child Murders</a> mentioned above, residents were concerned about a rising crime rate during Mayor Jackson's tenure, which was consistent with national trends. In 1979, with a soaring murder rate and nationwide publicity about crime there, Georgia Governor <a href="/wiki/George_Busbee" title="George Busbee">George Busbee</a>, acting on a request from Mayor Maynard Jackson, called in Georgia State Patrol troopers to help patrol the downtown. The business community accused Mayor Jackson and Police Chief George Napper of dismissing public concerns about crime. Atlanta had the highest murder rate and the highest overall crime rate of any city, and the numbers were rapidly climbing higher, with a 69% increase in homicides between 1978 and 1979 alone. Much of it was considered to be driven by drug wars.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service_to_the_Democratic_National_Committee">Service to the Democratic National Committee</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Service to the Democratic National Committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After leaving office as mayor, Jackson continued to be active with the Democratic Party. In 2001 he unsuccessfully sought the post as the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee">Democratic National Committee</a> chairman, losing to the fund-raiser <a href="/wiki/Terry_McAuliffe" title="Terry McAuliffe">Terry McAuliffe</a>, who had the backing of former president <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>. Jackson was backed by presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley">Bill Bradley</a>, among others. </p><p>Jackson was appointed as the National Development Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and was the first Chairman of the DNC Voting Rights Institute. In 2002, he founded the American Voters League, a non-profit and non-partisan effort to increase national voter participation. He appeared briefly in the 2001 documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Startup.com" title="Startup.com">Startup.com</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy_and_honors">Legacy and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Legacy and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Towards the end of his second mayoralty, a 1993 survey of historians, political scientists and urban experts conducted by Melvin G. Holli of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Chicago" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Illinois at Chicago">University of Illinois at Chicago</a> ranked Jackson as the twenty-fourth-best American big-city mayor to have served between the years 1820 and 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>In 2008 the Southside Comprehensive High School was renamed the Maynard Holbrook Jackson High School.</li> <li>In 2003, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport had Jackson's name added to it, and in 2012 the airport's new international terminal was named for him.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2015 a documentary film about his life and work, entitled <i>Maynard,</i> was in preparation, directed by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_D._Pollard" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel D. Pollard">Samuel D. Pollard</a>. It is expected to be released in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Maynard Documentary was officially selected by DOC NYC to premiere at their film festival on November 16, 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jackson died in 2003 at the age of 65, of <a href="/wiki/Cardiac_arrest" title="Cardiac arrest">cardiac arrest</a> at a hospital in <a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arlington, Virginia">Arlington, Virginia</a> after suffering a <a href="/wiki/Myocardial_infarction" title="Myocardial infarction">heart attack</a> at <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport" title="Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport">Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport</a>. His remains are buried at the <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Cemetery_(Atlanta,_Georgia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Georgia)">Oakland Cemetery</a> in Atlanta. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maynard_Jackson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-nga-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nga_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nga_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nga_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nga_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nga_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nga_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nga_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/maynard-jackson-1938-2003">Bradley R. 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