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On September 8, 1912, Mae Crow, [d] a white girl aged 18, went missing near Cumming. [11] She was walking from home to her aunt's house nearby on Browns Bridge Road along the Forsyth-Hall county line. The next day, searchers found the missing girl at noon, in secluded woods about one mile (1.6 km) from her house. [11]
Teenagers Oscar Daniel, seated, second from left, and Ernest Knox, seated, far right, were hanged in Forsyth County, Ga., as part of a dayslong campaign to expel all Black people from the area in ...
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In 1912, White people drove out every black resident in Forsyth County. [15] Beginning in the 1890s, Georgia passed a wide variety of Jim Crow laws that mandated racial segregation and racial separation for white people in public facilities and effectively codified the region's tradition of white supremacy. [16]
Snead, who moved to Forsyth in 1989, says it has seen growth. He recalls only 14 Black people living in the county of 42,000 people back then. More than three decades later, the county has ...
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Location of Forsyth County within the state of Georgia. Oscarville is a ghost town in Forsyth County, Georgia.Oscarville, a majority-Black town, is most famous for being a central location in a series of violent crimes and racially motivated riots that happened in 1912, driving away most of the Black residents in Forsyth County.