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1970 Augusta riot. The Augusta Riot was a collective rebellion of Black citizens in Augusta, Georgia, and the largest urban uprising in the Deep South during the Civil Rights era. Fueled by long-simmering grievances about racial injustice, it was sparked by White officials’ stonewalling in the face of Black citizens’ demand for answers ...
As police searched Ibarra's home in Athens, Georgia, Clark said he did not believe they needed evidence inside the home to make a case. Ibarra remains booked at the Clarke County Jail on multiple ...
The Department of Justice is investigating the 1970 jailhouse death of 16-year-old Charles Oatman and the murders of six men The post DOJ investigates murders of six Black men during the 1970 ...
The Georgia Department of Corrections operates prisons, transitional centers, probation detention centers, and substance use disorder treatment facilities. In addition, state inmates are also housed at private and county correctional facilities.
Bibbs is being held without bond in an Augusta, Georgia, jail after being tracked down by members of the ATF Rage Task Force and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, according to the release.
View of Augusta, from Summerville, 1872, by Harry Fenn; Augusta annexed Summerville in 1912. Augusta, Georgia was founded in 1736 as part of the British colony of Georgia, under the supervision of colony founder James Oglethorpe. It was the colony's second established town, after Savannah. Today, Augusta is the second-largest city in Georgia ...
Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed on March 5, 1945, for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a ...
That same month, the Augusta County Sheriff's Office announced that two suspects in the child's disappearance — Travis R. Brown and Candi J. Royer — had been arrested at a motel in Greensburg ...