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Primary Sources
Georgia Electric Membership Cooperation (GEMC), history of rural electrification and individual EMCs available on GEMC website
Georgia Power Corporation Archives, 241 Ralph McGill Boulevard NE, Atlanta, Georgia, extensive documentation of Georgia Power's development and activities
Rural Georgia magazines (official publication of Georgia Electric Membership Corporation), Georgia Room, Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia; Articles, cartoons, photographs, advertisements that chart rural Georgian's acquisition and use of electricity
Zach S. Henderson Library, Special Collections, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
- Porter Carswell Papers (key leader for Planters EMC and GEMC)
- Walter Harrison Papers (key leader for Planters EMC and GEMC)
Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple St., Carrollton, Georgia; Robert Tisinger Papers (key leader for Carroll EMC and for GEMC and NRECA)
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia; Numerous collections with materials related to the development of REA and electrical membership cooperatives as well as materials detailing relations between EMCs and Georgia Power. Also includes collections that document background information about rural life in Georgia. See especially: Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection
Secondary Sources
Bartley, Numan V. The Creation of Modern Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
Branch, Harlee. Georgia and the Georgia Power Company: A Century of Free Enterprise! New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1957.
Brigham, Jay. Empowering the West:
electrical politics before FDR. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998.
Brown, D. Clayton. Rural Electrification in the South, 1920-1955. Thesis: University of California Los Angeles, 1970.
Brown, D. Clayton. Electricity for Rural America: the Fight for the REA. Westport: Greenwood Press. 1980.
Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson: Master of the Senate. Random House, 2002.
Chase, Milton A. Search for Power. NRECA, 1985.
Childs, Marquis. Farmer Takes a Hand: The Electric Power Revolution in Rural America. Doubleday & Company Inc, 1951.
Cobb, James Charles. Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
Cobb, James C. "Not Gone, But Forgotten: Eugene Talmadge and the 1938 Purge Campaign." Georgia Historical Quarterly 59, no. 2 (September 1975), 198-209.
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Daniel, Pete. Lost Revolutions: the South in the 1950s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000.
Elrod, Martha. Energizing Georgia: the History of Georgia Power, 1883-2000. Macon: Indigo Custom Publishing, 2004.
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Romeo, Mary Ellen. Darkness to Daylight. Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, 1986.
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Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South. Louisana State University Press, 1986.
Wright, Wade H. History of the Georgia Power Company: 1855-1956. Atlanta: Georgia Power Company. 1957.
United States Country Life Commission. Report of the Commission on Country Life; with an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt , New York : Sturgis & Walton, 1917.
Online Resources
TVA: Electricity for All, http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm, New Deal Network, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
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