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Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
Journal of Negro History 76#1 (1991), pp. 21–47. online; Inscoe, John C., ed. Georgia in Black and White: Explorations in Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950 (University of Georgia Press, 2009). Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of light and love: Northern teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (University of Georgia Press, 1992) online.
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.
Georgia State University (GSU) is a historically white public institution that since the 2010s has had a Black plurality, with more Black students enrolled than any other non-profit university in the nation. GSU is the second largest university in Georgia and leads the nation in producing the most Black college graduates with bachelor's degrees ...
Hate and extremism in Georgia was on the rise in 2023, according to the results of an annual report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center that tracks extremist groups across the U.S.
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 ...
1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia; 1970 Augusta riot; 2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election; 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia; 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia
A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.