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It was designated as the county seat of Floyd County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 31.6 square miles (81.9 km 2 ), of which 30.9 square miles (80.1 km 2 ) are land and 0.73 square miles (1.9 km 2 ), or 2.29%, are covered by water.
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 ...
The county government is housed in the Floyd County Administration Building in Rome, Georgia, the county seat. This was the former US Post Office and Courthouse. The county has a council-manager form of government, with five county council members elected at-large. Two members are elected as representatives of the city of Rome and must reside ...
For decades the state of Georgia used a county unit system to determine the winner of its primary elections. Millions of people across Georgia are lining up to cast their votes in two state runoff ...
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.
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.
This Georgia Rising: Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940s. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0881460889. Pitch, Anthony S. (2016). The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1510701755. Wexler, Laura (2013).
1868: Camilla race riot (Camilla, Georgia), September 19 1868: Wards Island riot , March 5, Irish and German-American indigent immigrants, temporarily interned at Wards Island by the Commissioners of Emigration, begin rioting following an altercation between two residents, resulting in thirty men seriously wounded and around sixty arrested.