In August 1927 , Woodward was elected the first women president of the Georgia Press Association , and in the following year , she founded the Georgia Press Institute , which organizes annual gatherings of newspaper editors in Georgia . She became a member of the State Democratic Committee , and attended the 1928 Democratic National Convention . Woodward sold '' Vienna News '' in 1933 , and three years later , she authored the book '' Empire : Georgia Today in Pictures and Paragraphs , '' which is centred on the first visual photographs of Georgia 's history . Her popularity increased throughout the 1930s when she was a freelance journalist for the '' Atlanta Journal '' , which led to a high demand for her to speak at events across the United States . Due to this , Woodward was invited to direct the Georgia Public Forums , a direct adult education program that started in the fall of 1938
1928 Democratic National Convention
1928 Democratic National Convention
Emily Barnelia Woodward