In the latter part of 1868, 30 legislators were ousted from the Georgia General Assembly on a technicality in the newly created state Constitution. Find out about the years leading up to the election, expulsion, and re-instatement of these legislators.
Against a local backdrop, this site explores the repercussions of state-wide political events and movements. Individual profiles, newsclippings, meeting accounts, letters written by political leaders, and broadsides (or flyers) are included to communicate
Many political ideologies have been born out of the African search for liberation and freedom. It was through the nightmare of slavery, the terror of lynchings, the oppression of colonization and the general struggle for survival that the many of the tene
In 1780, seven African-American residents of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, presented the following very thoughtful petition to the legislature. Their protest was simple: They were being taxed and were not allowed to vote. The relationship between taxation and
