
A University of Georgia finance professor used the records of a Reconstruction-era bank to add fresh insights to the financial lives of newly emancipated African Americans, and how efforts to support them collapsed.
The University of Georgia’s campaign to create the John H. “Johnny” Isakson Chair for Parkinson’s Research and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar position reached its goal of $4.5 million in private commitments, and the final contributor was the former U.S. Senator for whom the chair is named.