Completed in 1991 the new Talmadge Memorial cable-stayed bridge replaced the old cantilever truss bridge (built in 1953), which had become a danger for large shipping entering the port in Savannah, Georgia, the largest single terminal container port on the United States eastern seaboard. The new bridge provides 185 ft.(56.4 m.) of vertical navigational clearance. Its horizontal clearance is 1,023 feet with both main piers located on the north and south banks of the Savannah River. With a main span of 1100 ft. (335 m.) and a total length of 1.9 miles (3.06 km.) the new Talmadge Memorial carrier 4 lanes of traffic over the Savannah River between Georgia to South Carolina.
A night view of the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge from the riverwalk in Savannah, Ga.: The Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge crosses the Savannah Harbor Navigation Channel approximately 15 miles from the mouth of the Savannah River. The Georgia Port Authority Terminal can be seen in the distance.
Despite Talmadge's declaration that he was, "not goint to put up with social equality [because] we don't need no niggers and white people taught together," the Southern Accrediting System expressed its disapproval of Talmadge's attempts to manipulate the policies of higher education by revoking the accreditation for ten schools in Georgia's educational system.
Accepting that Talmadge was a product, representative, and extension of his times increases one's comprehension of him as a demagogue empowered by racism but it does not encourage or excuse a tolerance of the bigotry, xenophobia, and repression for which he stood.
Unlike Talmadge, Jordan was not born into the material comforts enjoyed by the elite of the time, and the title of her as yet unpublished fictionalized biography, Memoirs of A Slave's Granddaughter, reflect that fact.
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