Official History of Fulton County
Author: Walter Gerald Cooper
Publisher: Reprint Company Publishers
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 944
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Author: Walter Gerald Cooper
Publisher: Reprint Company Publishers
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 944
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 1094
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter G. Cooper
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Published: 2000-11-01
Total Pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780740430794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shirley Willard
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pioneer citizens' society. Atlanta
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 412
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Phillips
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0393293025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John Lewis Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s. In precise, vivid prose, Blood at the Root delivers a "vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America" (Congressman John Lewis).
Author: Lisa M. M. Russell
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2023-03-13
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1439677689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLabor conflicts, arrests, espionage--it was all there at the once ubiquitous mills of Fulton County. Employee records and snatches of paper prove workers spied on each other. Company owners were paranoid about labor unions taking over. Copious documentation, unearthed here by author Lisa M. Russell, brings the workaday drama back to life. These mills sustained families, but exploitation was far from uncommon. When mill workers finally went on strike, there was hell to pay. The company bosses yanked strikers from their shacks. With the help of Governor Talmadge, the National Guard arrested working women with their children. They marched these "criminals" to a former WWI prisoner of war camp that once held enemy German soldiers. Hard to believe this was happening in and around Atlanta in the early 1900s.
Author: Annette Bramblett
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780738523866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe northern Georgia reaches were once home to the Cherokee Nation, who, as early as 1731, lived among the fertile lands and were linked to other native inhabitants by a meager trading path. The first European settlers and traders, arriving in 1797, introduced agriculture to the area, as families established homes and farms along the Georgia Road. Forestry thrived, necessitating mills and factories, while the poultry industry and high-quality cotton attracted waves of new settlers. The county's scenic splendor has drawn people away from urban centers, appealing to new residents and visitors with a relaxed and rural beauty. Today, Forsyth County proudly boasts of its recognized status as the nation's fastest growing county. Originally the home of significant amounts of gold, particularly through the Dahlonega Gold Belt and the Hall County Gold Belt, Forsyth County prospered as settlers quickly commanded the area. The costs may have outweighed the gains at times, however, and hardships befell the county through racial tension, economic trials, and extreme population fluctuations. Nevertheless, the county has persevered, and its people have shown both strength of character and spirit. Including new and unpublished data, this book explores the important advances in education, economy, and historic preservation in Forsyth County, as well as the tragic events related to the expulsion of the African-American population in 1912 and the Brotherhood Marches in 1987.
Author: Franklin M. Garrett
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1969-06-01
Total Pages: 988
ISBN-13: 0820302635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAtlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I and II, together more than two thousand pages in length, represent a quarter century of research by their author, Franklin M. Garrett a man called "a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South's most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in recent decades.