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African-American Georgians are residents of the U.S. state of Georgia who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 31.2% of the state's population. [ 4] Georgia has the second largest African American population in the United States following Texas. [ 5] Georgia also has a gullah community. [ 6]
This is a list of African American Historic Places in Georgia.This was originally based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, which may primarily have addressed sites that were listed, or were eligible for listing, on the National Register of Historic ...
e. The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes for thousands of years. A modest Spanish presence was established in the late 16th century, mostly centered on Catholic missions.
Sites from African American history, a suburban Atlanta neighborhood and a rural fairground are among the 10 Places in Peril The post African American sites top Georgia’s 10 ‘Places in Peril ...
Jamaicans are concentrated in Stone Mountain, Decatur, Lithonia and Snellville. [10][11]There is also a black Haitian community in Atlanta. [12] African-born blacks in Atlanta are mostly from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Somalia, Liberia, and Nigeria. [13] Black men in Atlanta are disproportionately affected by HIV.
Original 33. The " Original 33 " were the first 33 African-American members of the Georgia General Assembly. They were elected to office in 1868, during the Reconstruction era. They were among the first African-American state legislators in the United States. Twenty-four of the members were ministers.
Importing slaves to Georgia was illegal from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856. [15] Despite these restrictions, researchers estimate that Georgians "transported approximately fifty thousand bonded African Americans" from other slave states between 1820 and 1860. [16] Some of these imports were legal transfers, others were not.
1906 Atlanta race massacre. 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.