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The Watkinsville lynching was a mass lynching that occurred in Watkinsville, Georgia, United States on June 30, 1905. The lynching, which saw a large mob seize 9 men from a local jail and kill 8 of them by gunfire, has been described as "one of the worst episodes of racial violence ever in Georgia."
Watkinsville is the largest city and county seat of Oconee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city had a total population of 2,896. It served as the seat of Clarke County until 1872 when the county seat of that county was moved to Athens , a move which ultimately led to the creation of Oconee County in 1875.
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).
Mary Turner (c. 1885 [11] – 19 May 1918) was a young, married black woman and mother of three—including an unborn child—who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia, for having protested the lynching death of her husband Hazel "Hayes" Turner the day before in Brooks County. [16]
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James Robinson aka "Gentleman Jim," was born free and landed. He also received an education from the same private tutor that taught his half sister Judith Carter. [2] [4] The homestead he built in Bull Run couldn't have been more prominent at the outset of the Civil War, during which two major battles were fought in his front yard.
James Dixon Robinson III was born to a wealthy family in Atlanta on November 19, 1935. [2] He was educated at the Woodberry Forest School and attended Georgia Tech's School of Industrial Management where civil rights icon Blake Van Leer was president. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1957 [3] [4] where he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity.
On Friday, it's making a stop in Watkinsville, as part of its "Breakfast with Friends" series. On Friday, Nov. 1, "Breakfast with Friends" will be at Joe and Sam’s Café, at 1021 Jamestown Blvd ...