![]() ![]() Phillips talks in great detail about some of the black residents of Forsyth County, including Grant Smith, a black clergyman who was whipped and beaten by a white mob in the aftermath of the second sexual assault. Even in 2015, Forsyth County was still less than 4 percent African-American, according to U.S. Of course, racial progress is easier to delay when the you have little diversity. "Nearly everyone I knew, adults and children, referred to black people as 'n-,'" Phillips writes, "and for the entire time I lived there in the 1970s and '80s, 'white only' was still the law of the land." In January 1987, on the 75th anniversary of the 1912 expulsion, activists hoping to march through Cumming were famously met by 2,500 angry whites waving Confederate flags, holding signs that read "Keep Forsyth White" and chanting "Go home, n-!" ![]()
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