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“ This was written as a postscript to the infamous Forsyth County March that took place the previous Saturday. The book is his way of making sense of the place where he grew up.The story that I was told, the myth, was very simple: White people rose up. Suspicion soon fell on a group of young African-Americans.
Local media condemned them, describing them as the trio as — quote — "the fiendish, low-browed, gorilla-type Negroes.
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.Watch the new series, starting Sunday, July 26 at 10:30 p.m. EasternIn 1912, news of a violent sexual assault enraged the residents of Georgia's Forsyth County and led to a lynching and the execution of two African American teens, as well as a campaign of terror to drive out the entire black community. Gorowitz Accounting & Tax Services, P.C. DUARTE GERALDINO: A moment of extreme division captured in one of Oprah Winfrey's first shows.
Worst of all we ended up with a reputation we do not deserve. They were kept out for 100 years, what I now know as the racial cleansing in 1912.We followed his trail of discovery.
I am head of the Committee to Keep Forsyth Dawson County White.