Miscellaneous

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Augustus “Gus” Johnson, the first white man hanged for killing a black man in Georgia
An estimated crowd of 20,000 people, the largest ever in the city of Rome, Georgia came to watch Gus...
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Christmas and The Gospel of Mary Brown
This comes from a 1919 issue of the Crisis and it’s an intense meditation on what Christmas...
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How many of Georgia's counties are named after slave owners?
At least 116 of Georgia’s 159 counties are named after slave owners. Of the 44 counties not named...
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