African Americans in Georgia explained

Group:African Americans in Georgia
Total:3,495,258
Total Year:2017
Total Ref:[1]
Languages:Southern American English, African American Vernacular English, African-American English, Gullah, African languages
Regions:Atlanta, Stonecrest, Lithonia, Atlanta metropolitan area, Albany, Columbus, Augusta, Savannah, Macon, Valdosta, Hancock County, Dougherty County, Clayton County, Fulton County, DeKalb County,[2] many rural counties throughout the southwest part of the state
Religions:Historically Black Protestant[3]

African-American Georgians are residents of the U.S. state of Georgia who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 31.2% of the state's population.[4] Georgia has the second largest African American population in the United States following Texas.[5] Georgia also has a gullah community.[6] African slaves were brought to Georgia during the slave trade.[7]

History

See also: History of Georgia (U.S. state). Spanish colonists brought African slaves to Georgia in 1526.[8] African slaves imported to Georgia primarily came from Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.[9] Slaves were also imported from South Carolina and the West Indies.[10] Slaves mostly worked on cotton and rice plantations.[11] [12] By the mid-19th century the majority of white people in Georgia, like most White Southerners, had come to view slavery as economically indispensable to their society. Georgia, with the largest number plantations of any state in the Southern United States, had in many respects come to epitomize plantation culture. When the American Civil War started in 1861, most white people in the South joined in the defense of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy), which the state Georgia had helped to create.[13]

Between the years 1751 and 1773, the black population in Georgia grew from around 500 to around 15,000. Slaves from Georgia were also brought to Georgia by South Carolinian and Caribbean owners and those purchased in South Carolina, around 44% black slaves in Georgia were shipped to the colony from West Africa (57%), from or via the Caribbean (37%), and from the other mainland colonies in the United States (6%) in the years between 175s and1771.[14]

In 1912, White people drove out every black resident in Forsyth County.[15]

Beginning in the 1890s, Georgia passed a wide variety of Jim Crow laws that mandated racial segregation and racial separation for white people in public facilities and effectively codified the region's tradition of white supremacy.[16] Lynching African Americans was also common in Georgia. White mobs would lynch black men.[17]

Georgia became a slave state in 1751.[18] Initially, Georgia was the only British colony in the United States to try to ban slavery.[19]

White slaveholders would frequently beat and sometimes had killed slaves.[20]

Civil War

The Civil War happened in Georgia.[21] African American soldiers fought the Civil War in Georgia.[22]

Lynching

See main article: Lynching in the United States. Many black men were lynched by white mobs in Georgia.[17] Notably, Robert Mallard and Isaiah Nixon, who were both lynched by the Ku Klux Klan for voting in the 1948 Georgia gubernatorial special election.[23]

Historically black colleges and universities

Georgia is the home of ten historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Albany State University, Clark Atlanta University, Fort Valley State University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Morris Brown College, Paine College, Savannah State University, and Spelman College.[24]

Politics

The historically Republican state of Georgia flipped blue in the 2020 Presidential Election and the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs, in part, due to high Black voter turnout. Joe Biden won the Black vote in Georgia in a 2020 exit poll with 88% of Black Georgians voting for Biden.[25] [26] [27]

This shift from red to purple is in part, due to young, college-educated Black Americans, who largely vote for Democrats, moving from Northern and Western regions of the country to the South, in a phenomenon often referred to as the New Great Migration. [28]

Civil Rights

Politics

Music

Sport

Religious

Film and television

Writing

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Further reading

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Georgia Black Population . blackdemographics.com . July 25, 2022 . July 25, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220725092305/https://blackdemographics.com/states/georgia-black-population/amp/ . live .
  2. Web site: Monday Mapday: The Distribution of Georgia's Black, Non-Hispanic Residents . February 17, 2020 . February 3, 2023 . December 1, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201173934/https://33n.atlantaregional.com/monday-mapday/monday-mapday-the-distribution-of-georgias-black-and-african-american-residents . live .
  3. Web site: Religious Landscape Study . June 12, 2022 . June 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628061724/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/racial-and-ethnic-composition/black/state/georgia/ . live .
  4. Web site: 2011 . Georgia QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150622105843/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13000.html . June 22, 2015 . January 20, 2014 . Quickfacts.census.gov.
  5. Web site: March 25, 2021 . The Growing Diversity of Black America . July 25, 2022 . July 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220724000648/https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/03/25/the-growing-diversity-of-black-america/ . live .
  6. Web site: Gullah History | Gullah Culture . October 8, 2022 . October 8, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221008072248/https://www.beaufortsc.org/things-to-do/gullah-culture/ . live .
  7. Web site: Slavery in Antebellum Georgia .
  8. Web site: Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon . Today in Georgia History . July 22, 2021 . November 13, 2021 . November 13, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211113010024/https://www.todayingeorgiahistory.org/tih-georgia-day/lucas-vasquez-de-ayllon/ . live .
  9. Web site: Slavery in Colonial Georgia . New Georgia Encyclopedia . March 11, 2020 . April 27, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200427012244/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slavery-colonial-georgia . live .
  10. Book: The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810. 978-1-57003-546-3 . McMillin . James A. . February 3, 2024 . Univ of South Carolina Press .
  11. Web site: A New Encounter: Black Slaves in Georgia . Georgia Historical Society . July 9, 2022 . June 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628094303/https://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/online-exhibits/online-exhibits/encounter-and-exchange/a-new-encounter-black-slaves-in-georgia/plantation-economy/ . live .
  12. Web site: Georgia - Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction | Britannica . Encyclopædia Britannica . April 26, 2021 . June 23, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210623221149/https://www.britannica.com/place/Georgia-state/Slavery-the-Civil-War-and-Reconstruction . live .
  13. Web site: Georgia - Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction | Britannica . April 26, 2021 . June 23, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210623221149/https://www.britannica.com/place/Georgia-state/Slavery-the-Civil-War-and-Reconstruction . live .
  14. Book: Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775. 103. 978-0-8203-3149-2 . Wood . Betty . December 2007 . University of Georgia Press .
  15. Web site: In 1912, This Georgia County Drove Out Every Black Resident | HISTORY . August 20, 2019 . January 26, 2023 . January 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230126114429/https://www.history.com/.amp/news/georgia-racial-expulsion-stacey-abrams . live .
  16. Web site: Segregation . January 26, 2023 . January 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230126121837/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/segregation/ . live .
  17. Web site: Lynching .
  18. Web site: Pre-Revolutionary Slavery - Georgia Historical Society. August 1, 2013.
  19. Web site: Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730–1775 .
  20. Web site: 2021-02-08 . Enslavement in Georgia . 2023-12-27 . Race and Reckoning in Forsyth County - Stories of Life in Georgia - Digital Library of Georgia . en.
  21. Web site: Civil War in Georgia .
  22. Web site: Black Troops in Civil War Georgia .
  23. Book: Congress (U.S.), Civil Rights . We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People . 1952 . International Publishers . en.
  24. Web site: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative . October 13, 2022 . October 14, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221014053629/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/historically-black-colleges-and-universities-initiative/ . live .
  25. News: Mayes . Brittany . Shapiro . Leslie . Alcantara . Chris . Clement . Scott . Guskin . Emily . November 9, 2020 . 2020-11-02 . Exit poll results and analysis for the 2020 presidential election . . Washington, D.C. . 0190-8286 . 1330888409 . July 25, 2022 . December 11, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221211055712/https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2020/exit-polls/georgia-exit-polls/ . live .
  26. Web site: January 5, 2021 . Most Georgia voters say Senate runoff elections conducted fairly, CNN exit poll shows . . October 13, 2022 . October 13, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221013161743/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/georgia-exit-polls-january-runoff/index.html . live .
  27. Web site: SNBC News Exit Poll: Black, liberal voters boost Warnock to projected Senate win in Georgia . January 6, 2021 . . October 13, 2022 . October 13, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221013163244/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/nbc-news-exit-poll-georgia-runoff-voters-split-party-whether-n1252851 . live .
  28. Web site: A 'New Great Migration' is bringing Black Americans back to the South.
  29. Web site: Georgia: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) . October 15, 2022 . October 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015033646/https://www.nps.gov/articles/kingsite.htm#:~:text=Coretta%20Scott%20King.-,Martin%20Luther%20King%2C%20Jr.,he%20graduated%20from%20Morehouse%20College . live .
  30. Web site: Clarence Thomas . December 23, 2022 . Oyez . en . December 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221215232737/https://www.oyez.org/justices/clarence_thomas . live .
  31. Web site: U.S. Senate: U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock . October 15, 2022 . October 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015033832/https://www.senate.gov/senators/117thCongress/warnock-raphael.htm . live .
  32. Web site: Georgia's Daring Heroine on a Secret Mission . October 15, 2022 . December 22, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171222052301/https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgias-daring-heroine-secret-mission-000000812.html . live .
  33. Web site: Library Research Guides: African American History: Georgia- Prominent African American History Makers .
  34. Web site: Kanye West Biography, Songs, & Albums . . October 15, 2022 . September 29, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200929025144/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kanye-west-mn0000361014/biography . live .
  35. Web site: October 16, 2022 . 8-time All-Star Dwight Howard pondering retirement: 'No teams want to allow me to play' . October 18, 2022 . October 18, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221018212738/https://sportsnaut.com/dwight-howard-pondering-retirement/ . live .
  36. Web site: Herschel Walker . October 15, 2022 . October 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015202937/https://www.heisman.com/heisman-winners/herschel-walker/ . live .
  37. Web site: Biography - the Official Licensing Website of Jackie Robinson . October 15, 2022 . October 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015202937/https://jackierobinson.com/biography/ . live .
  38. News: Holden . Stephen . March 22, 2002 . FILM REVIEW; Jim Brown as Football Legend, Sex Symbol and Husband . The New York Times . October 15, 2022 . October 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015202936/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/22/movies/film-review-jim-brown-as-football-legend-sex-symbol-and-husband.html . live .
  39. Web site: Legendary sixth man Lou Williams officially announces retirement. June 18, 2023. NBC Sports.

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