Black Residents Expelled from Forsyth County Georgia at Gunpoint

In September 1912, following the rape and murder of a white woman in Forsyth County, Georgia, white residents launched a systematic terror campaign to expel the county's entire Black population of approximately 1,100. Black homes and churches were burned, residents were threatened and beaten, and within two months all had fled. Their land was seized for a fraction of value or simply taken. Forsyth County remained all-white until the 1980s; when a 1987 civil rights march attempted to enter the county, marchers were attacked by hundreds of Klansmen throwing rocks.