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Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine Race Riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively. Both had many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage ...
Seven seats on the Macon-Bibb County Commission were up for grabs Tuesday in Georgia’s non-partisan elections, and several of them were decided with Tuesday’s results. But a couple races are ...
Stanley Stewart has won the race for the Macon-Bibb County Board of Commissioners District 3 seat, according to election results from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, which showed ...
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
Georgia polls open at 7 a.m. Tuesday as voters make key choices in races like the Macon-Bibb County mayor’s election and the Bibb County sheriff’s race.
Macon (/ ˈ m eɪ k ən / MAY-kən), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, United States.Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Atlanta and near the state's geographic center—hence its nickname "The Heart of Georgia".
Maxwell lost the race by more than 70 percentage points, according to official election results from the Georgia secretary of state. She received 2,712 votes. ... but the race for mayor was the ...
The Laurens County, Georgia race riot was an attack on the black community by white mobs in August 1919. In the Haynes' report, as summarized in the New York Times , it is called the Ocmulgee, Georgia race riot .