This Day In History: Forsyth County’s March For Racial Harmony
Counter protesters at the Jan. 17, 1987, march in Forsyth County, Georgia are pictured here.
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/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This Saturday is Jan. 17.
If we were to turn Georgia’s clock back 28 years to that date in 1987, we’d be witness to the first “brotherhood” march in Forsyth County.
That organizers felt the need to march for racial harmony in the county had its roots in events that occurred there 75 years earlier.
Georgia State University Associate Professor of History Dr. Clifford Kuhn revisits the event with WABE’s Steve Goss.
A conversation with Dr. Clifford Kuhn
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