Welcome to the 1912 Forsyth County Expulsion Learning Community Gathering!
We invite all individuals, groups and organization who have researched the 1912 Forysth County Expulsion and who have collected oral histories, mapping, archival evidence or have contact with the Black descendant community of the Forsyth Expulsion to a Learning Community Gathering to share your work. We also invite allies with deep connections friends, and family who may have knowledge of family descendents to join this virtual gathering.
We are a cooperative team from the Truth Telling Project and the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. We honored to have received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant aimed to safeguard cultural resources by recovering and documenting oral histories of the Forsyth Expulsion with the community of descendents and the wider diaspora of people impacted by this historical legacy. Many of these members from the Forsyth County Expulsion community may also have been navigating the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We would love to meet and talk to you about your important work and the legacy of this racial violence toward the Black community.Join us for a virtual event where we will come together to discuss, learn, and grow as a community. Your rich knowledge and depth of experience will aid us as we seek to meet and have members from the community share their stories of resiliance with us.
Master Storyteller Sistah Patt Gunn from Savannah Underground Tours who will be collecting oral histories shares these truth-telling words with us:
'I cannot imagine the joy of hearing my Ancestor's voices - sharing their experience with the Forsyth County Expulsion. One gentleman I interviewed said, 'We had to leave our crops in da' field, horses and cows, food, clothing - we just had to flee in the middle of the night with our lives.'
Colored Folks had no rights in Forsyth County that the government was willing to protect that night.'
'We just had to run!'/ Victim Narrative 1987 secured by Patt Gunn, Legal Redress Committee member @ the King Center
Please join us as we want to connect with like-minded commrades who have devoted time and heart to the Forsyth County tragedy. We are grateful for your work and want to learn from you!
