Fulton County, Georgia
Named for Robert Fulton
County Seat is Atlanta
Laid Out in 1853

Neighboring Counties:
Cobb ~ Milton ~ DeKalb
Clayton ~ Campbell

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Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty-five black fatalities. Atlanta's black residents fought back and repeatedly defended their neighborhoods from white raids. Placing this four-day riot in a broader narrative of twentieth-century race relations in Atlanta, in the South, and in the United States, David Fort Godshalk examines the riot's origins and how memories of this cataclysmic event shaped black and white social and political life for decades to come. Nationally, the riot radicalized many civil rights leaders, encouraging W. E. B. Du Bois's confrontationist stance and diminishing the accommodationist voice of Booker T. Washington. In Atlanta, fears of continued disorder prompted white civic leaders to seek dialogue with black elites, establishing a rare biracial tradition that convinced mainstream northern whites that racial reconciliation was possible in the South without national intervention. Paired with black fears of renewed violence, however, this interracial cooperation exacerbated black social divisions and repeatedly undermined black social justice movements, leaving the city among the most segregated and socially stratified in the nation. Analyzing the interwoven struggles of men and women, blacks and whites, social outcasts and national powerbrokers, Godshalk illuminates the possibilities and limits of racial understanding and social change in twentieth-century America.

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Fulton 1853

Fulton 1924

The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, And Violence In A New South City (Southern Dissent)
Gregory Mixon traces the roots of the Atlanta Riot of 1906, exploring the intricate political, social, and urban conditions that led to one of the defining events of race relations in southern and African-American history. On September 22, 1906, several thousand white Atlantans rioted, ostensibly because they believed that black men had committed "repeated assaults on the white women of Fulton County," according to newspapers at the time. Four days after the massacre began, 32 people had died and 70 were wounded.

History of Atlanta, Georgia: with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers

Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920
The county has always been used as the basic Federal census unit. Genealogical research in the census, therefore, begins with identifying the correct county jurisdictions. This work shows all U.S. county boundaries from 1790 to 1920. On each of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are superimposed over the modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-year intervals. Also included is an essay on available sources for each state's old county lines. With each map there is data on boundary changes, notes about the census, and locality finding keys. There also are inset maps that clarify territorial lines and a state-by-state bibliography of sources. The detail in this work is exhaustive and of such impeccable standards that there is little wonder why this award-winning publication is the number one tool in U.S. census research. One of Genealogical Publishing Company's "Top Ten" Books of 2006.


Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906
The roots of the 1906 Atlanta race riot are traced here through archival documents, news stories and from works by writers Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Margaret Mitchell and future NAACP leader Walter White.

North Across the River: A Civil War Trail of Tears
Editorial Review from Kirkus Reviews: "A competently told account of an overlooked episode in Civil War history. Roswell, Ga., was Cherokee Indian territory until that people was forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the 1830s. Thereafter it became a small center of textile manufacture, specialized in the making of rough cloth that could be finished and dyed elsewhere. As such, Roswell became an important supplier of materiel to the Confederate forces during the Civil War, for which reason William Tecumseh Sherman, the famed Union general, charged the millworkers with treason for providing yarn and cloth to the rebel enemy. In 1864 Shermans soldiers burned the mill to the ground and deported the workers, most of them women, and their families to a federal camp in Louisville, Ky. He evidently wanted, writes amateur historian Cook, to do more than that: he asked the secretary of war for permission to send all males and females who have encouraged or harbored guerrillas, including the Roswell weavers, to South America, for, he said, one thing is certain, there is a class of people, men, women, and children, who must be killed or banished before we can hope for peace and order even as far south as Tennessee. The citizens of Louisville were more kindly disposed, and a commission aided the civilians with food and clothing. Some of those refugees, however, were then taken further afield, abandoned in a railroad depot in Indianapolis and told to fend for themselves."

Semi-Centennial History of the Second Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, 1904
Chapters include Second Baptist Church and its pastors, history of the mission workers, sunday school, roll call of the dead, Woodward Avenue Baptist Church, Central Baptist Church, Temple Baptist Church, Glenn Street Baptist Church, Capitol Avenue Baptist Church, and early records.

Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations
Godshalk examines the 4-day race riots in 1906 Atlanta as a broader narrative of 20th-century race relations in the city, the South, and the U.S. Following the riots, nationally, activists were radicalized by the event, steering away from Booker T. Washington's accommodationist stance and toward the more confrontational tactics of W. E. B. Du Bois. Locally, both blacks and whites feared futher violence. Whites sought dialogue with elite blacks, thus undermining the grassroots activism among non-elite blacks in Atlanta.

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