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1912 Racial Conflict of Forsyth County Georgia
In the autumn of 1912 in Forsyth County, Georgia two different black on white rapes took place that threw the county into turmoil and changed the region for years to come. First a woman named Ellen Grice claimed to be attacked. Then three days later in the same county another young white woman, Mae Crow was attacked and later died. One black man, Rob Edwards, was lynched in the town square. Later, two black teenagers; Ernest Cox and Oscar Daniel were put on trial and found guilty and later hung for the crime.
Before the trial had even started blacks in the county were being harassed and driven from their homes by a small band of men. Within the next four months an estimated 98% of the black living in the county had left, and in the surrounding counties anywhere from 50% to 100% of blacks were forced from their homes never to return again. It has been called the largest case of black banishment in the history of the United States.
==Background==
With the American Civil War having ended just 47 years before Blacks were now free, but still not considered equal by most whites. While slavery was abolished, sharecropping was in wide use and confined black farmers to poverty. Just six years before, the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 took place and were still fresh in the minds of residents of the county. A firsthand account from Dr. Ansel Strickland, a doctor in Cumming, said that "hundreds of Black were killed" in a large anti-black riot. The distrust and
Lynchings were somewhat commonplace in Georgia and accounts of lynchings from all over the state and south were commonplace in the local papers. Lynchings were seen not only as a method of justice, but of showing dominance and control over the local black population. It was also generally considered to be a deterrent against any future unlawful behavior from the minority population.
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