Since relinquishing the Georgia governor's chair, Herman Talmadge has had little to do but snarl defiantly at the Supreme Court. As the self-appointed prophet of the Jim Crow forces, he has burned ...

Learn more about EJI’s work here. Georgia Gov. Herman E. Talmadge liked to portray himself as a champion of education who’d built hundreds of new schools, many of them for Black children.

The night of Jan. 14, when Georgia’s legislature met to elect a successor to Governor Gene Talmadge, son Herman’s chances were slim. In the first count of write-in ballots, he was running ...