An estimated crowd of 20,000 people, the largest ever...
George O. Glenn of north Georgia, had a lot of successes....
This comes from a 1919 issue of the Crisis and...
At least 116 of Georgia’s 159 counties are named...
Polk Mitchell and Charley Williams had a history. This...
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An estimated crowd of 20,000 people, the largest ever in the city of Rome, Georgia came to watch Gus...
George O. Glenn of north Georgia, had a lot of successes. Yet there must have been some failures in his...
This comes from a 1919 issue of the Crisis and it’s an intense meditation on what Christmas...
At least 116 of Georgia’s 159 counties are named after slave owners. Of the 44 counties not named...
Polk Mitchell and Charley Williams had a history. This history would unhappily lead to their fateful...
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On July 1, 1907, the citizens of Dalton awoke to find a dead man hanging from a downtown bridge. Around...
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