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On July 11, Roger Malcom allegedly stabbed Barnette Hester, a white man; Malcom was arrested and held in the county jail in Monroe, the Walton county seat. In 2007 the Associated Press reported revelations about former governor Eugene Talmadge, based on 3725 pages of FBI material related to its 1946 investigation of the Moore's Ford lynching ...
Sundown towns in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) Pages in category "History of racism in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Following Reconstruction, the 12 years after the Civil War, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including a relatively small but growing population of Black people, dozens of whom ...
A month after the article appeared in the Chicago Defender the NAACP sent Monroe N. Work to Blakely to investigate the incident. On June 7, 1919, Work sent a telegram to NAACP officer J. R. Shillady stating "Have investigated report. Blakely, Georgia, lynching does not appear to have occured ." Work concluded his investigation by recommending ...
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CUMMING, Ga. — When Durwood Snead moved to Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1989, he was struck by the lack of diversity in the region, just 30 miles north of Atlanta.
On June 25, 1918, Schuman was removed from Brooks County Jail to an unknown location to avoid being lynched. Schuman survived the ordeal and moved to Albany, Georgia shortly afterward. [11] Sidney Johnson, who murdered Smith, reached Valdosta, the county seat of Lowndes County, where he hid for a few days. When he appealed to another black man ...
Historically segregated African-American schools in Georgia (U.S. state) (1 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Anti-black racism in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.