People in GA history

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Across
  1. 2. Nobel winner and civil rights leader born in Atlanta
  2. 4. Slugger who broke the home run record in Atlanta
  3. 6. Powerful Senator and namesake of a DC office building
  4. 9. The "Father of the Two-Ocean Navy" from Milledgeville
  5. 10. Yamacraw Chief who befriended the early settlers
  6. 13. Savannah native who founded the Girl Scouts
  7. 14. Maynard; Atlanta’s first African American mayor
  8. 17. Albany-born legend who sang "Georgia on My Mind"
  9. 18. The GA doctor who first used ether in surgery
  10. 19. The half-Creek translator for James Oglethorpe
  11. 21. Alice; Eatonton native who wrote The Color Purple
  12. 22. Pin Point native and current Supreme Court Justice
  13. 23. Dominant mid-century governor and Senator
  14. 24. "The Georgia Peach" who was a baseball pioneer
Down
  1. 1. Cairo-born athlete who broke the MLB color barrier
  2. 3. Author who created Uncle Remus at the Wren’s Nest
  3. 5. The founder who led the first settlers on the Anne
  4. 7. Author who wrote the Atlanta epic Gone With the Wind
  5. 8. The "Empress of Soul" born in Atlanta
  6. 11. Author of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" from Savannah
  7. 12. Declaration signer for whom a large county is named
  8. 15. Segregationist governor who owned the Pickrick
  9. 16. Civil rights icon and long-time GA Congressman
  10. 17. The 39th President and peanut farmer from Plains
  11. 20. The man who created the Cherokee syllabary