African Americans in Georgia (U.S. state)

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African Americans lynched in Georgia in 1916.

Playboi Carti^[1]

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.^[2]

History[]

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African slaves imported to Georgia primarily came from Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.^[3] They were primarily enslaved by British Americans.^{[citation needed]}

Lynching[]

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Notable people[]

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• Jackie Robinson
• Andrew Young
• Harriet Tubman
• James Brown
• Ray Charles
• Ahmaud Arbery, African American shot and killed by a white police officer
• Playboi Carti, rapper of African American descent^[4]
• Lil Nas X, rapper

Politics[]

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Education[]

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Civil rights movement[]

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Civil war[]

See also[]

• African Americans in Atlanta
• History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state)
• African Americans in Florida
• Romani Gypsies in Atlanta
• Treatment of the enslaved in the United States
• American Civil War
• Jim Crow laws
• Demographics of Georgia (U.S. state)
• Gullah
• African Americans in Chicago
• African Americans in Texas
• African Americans in Louisiana
• African Americans in North Carolina
• African Americans in South Carolina
• African Americans in Alabama
• African Americans in Mississippi
• African Americans in California
• African Americans in Tennessee
• Black Southerners
• Moore's Ford lynchings

References[]

External links[]

• Georgia African American History and Culture
• Slavery in Colonial Georgia
• Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

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