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Ellis Arnall (left) being denied entry to the governor's Capitol office during the controversy. The Three governors controversy was a political crisis in the U.S. state of Georgia, from 1946 to 1947. On December 21, 1946, Eugene Talmadge, the governor-elect of Georgia, died before taking office
Forsyth County is a county located in north Georgia, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of the state capital of Atlanta, [1] with its county seat being the city of Cumming. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] For much of the 20th century, the primarily rural county had a long history of poor race relations and a reputation as a hostile place for African Americans . [ 1 ]
These lynchings are examples of the racially motivated mob violence by white people against black people in the American South, especially during 1880 to 1930, the peak of lynchings. Brooks County in Georgia, and Georgia among the states, had the highest rates of lynching in the nation during this period [citation needed].
For example, Juliet Graham told WSBTV Channel 2 that her HOA bill had reached $250,000 by the time she finally sold her downtown Atlanta condo, adding: “You [the HOAs] broke us. We’re broke.”
Institutional abuse is the maltreatment of someone (often children or older adults) by a system of power. [4] This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behavior.
Georgia politicians sold large tracts of territory in the Yazoo lands, in what are now portions of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi, to political insiders at very low prices in 1794. Although the law enabling the sales was overturned by reformers the following year, its ability to do so was challenged in the courts, eventually ...
If force or violence are not involved, such an event is sometimes called a soft or bloodless coup. In another variation, a ruler who came to power through legal means may try to stay in power through illegal means, thus preventing the next legal ruler from taking power. These events are called self coups. This is a chronological list of such ...
Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail Friday in Georgia, using his first stop on a multi-state tour to frame the 2022 midterm elections as a referendum on democracy and to ...