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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 ...
In 1910, more than 1,000 black people lived in the county, which had more than 10,000 white residents. Within the next four months following the events of September 1912, an estimated 98% of the black residents living in the county left due to Night Rider threats, or were murdered. [citation needed]
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.