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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 ...
In 1912, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including 1,098 Black people scattered throughout the county. But that September, an 18-year-old white woman named Mae Crow was brutally ...
Cumming serves as the county seat of Forsyth County, an overwhelmingly Republican area with one of the darkest chapters in the South’s history of racial violence.
Forsyth County (/ f ɔːr ˈ s aɪ θ / for-SYTHE or / ˈ f ɔːr s aɪ θ / FOR-sythe) is a county in the Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia. Suburban and exurban in character, Forsyth County lies within the Atlanta metropolitan area. The county's only incorporated city and county seat is Cumming. [1] At the 2020 census, the ...
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 ]
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.
Comanche County, Texas: White residents expelled blacks from Comanche County because of alleged crimes committed by black men. [6] 1888–1908 Paragould, Arkansas: A number of race riots occurred in Paragould between 1888 and 1908, resulting in most of the town's 150 black residents leaving. [7] 1892 Lexington, Oklahoma [8] 1893 Blackwell ...
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