African Americans in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Atlanta metropolitan area, Albany, Columbus, Augusta, Savannah, Macon, Valdosta | |
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Southern American English | |
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Gullah, White Southerners, English Americans, Irish Americans, Mexican Americans, Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, Romani Americans, African Americans in California, African Americans in Alabama, African Americans in Mississippi, African Americans in Tennessee |
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African Americans lynched in Georgia in 1916.
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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[]
- ^ https://www.thefader.com/2019/06/12/playboi-carti-cover-story
- ^ "Georgia QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Archived from the original on June 22, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
- ^ "Slavery in Colonial Georgia". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- ^ https://www.thefader.com/2019/06/12/playboi-carti-cover-story
External links[]
- Georgia African American History and Culture
- Slavery in Colonial Georgia
- Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
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