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The Polk County Historical Marker. Polk County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,853. [1] The county seat is Cedartown. [2] The county was created on December 20, 1851, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and named after James K. Polk, the eleventh President of ...
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
Sundown towns in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) Pages in category "History of racism in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
K-12 students across Georgia learn state and local history, but there is no explicit mention of the 1912 expulsion on Forsyth’s education website. A spokesperson for the school district did say ...
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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.
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 ...
Journal of Negro History 43.3 (1958): 186–213. online; Bacote, Clarence A. "Negro proscriptions, protests, and proposed solutions in Georgia, 1880-1908." Journal of Southern History 25.4 (1959): 471–498. online; Bernd, Joseph L. "White supremacy and the disfranchisement of Blacks in Georgia, 1946." Georgia Historical Quarterly 66.4 (1982 ...