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The table below shows the percentage of free blacks as a percentage of the total black population in various U.S. regions and U.S. states between 1790 and 1860 (the blank areas on the chart below mean that there is no data for those specific regions or states in those specific years). [citation needed]
(See: Demographics of Atlanta: Race and ethnicity by neighborhood) There was a decrease in the Black population in the following areas: In NPU W (East Atlanta, Grant Park, Ormewood Park, Benteen Park), the Black population went from 57.6% to 38.0%, and the white proportion rose from 36.5% to 54.8%
The way it was in the South: The Black experience in Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 2001). Grantham, Dewey W. "Georgia Politics and the Disfranchisement of the Negro." Georgia Historical Quarterly 32.1 (1948): 1-21. online; Hornsby, Alton. "Black Public Education in Atlanta, Georgia, 1954-1973: From Segregation to Segregation."
The 1860 United States census was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June 1, 1860, and lasting five months. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321 [ 1 ] in 33 states and 10 organized territories.
The 1860 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
Spearheaded by a group of local pastors, a scholarship for descendants of a 1912 Forsyth County, Ga., racial cleansing hopes to begin to right a multi-generational wrong.
Stone Mountain is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.The population was 6,703 according in 2020. Stone Mountain is in the eastern part of DeKalb County and is a suburb of Atlanta that encompasses nearly 1.7 square miles.
In a pattern seen across the South after the Civil War, many freedmen moved from plantations to towns or cities for work, including Atlanta; Fulton County went from 20.5% black in 1860 to 45.7% black in 1870. [32] [33] Atlanta, Georgia -- the Commercial Centre, 1887