Bibliography

Primary Sources

• Forsyth County Tax Digests, 1911–1917. Georgia State Archives, Morrow, GA.
• Forsyth County Deed Records. Forsyth County Clerk of Superior Court, Cumming, GA.
• United States Census Bureau. Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Censuses of the United States, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940. Forsyth County, Georgia. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
• Report of the Cumming/Forsyth County Biracial Committee. December 22, 1987. Available in the Local History Collection at Sharon Forks Library, 2820 Old Atlanta Rd, Cumming, GA.
• The Dahlonega Nugget (Dahlonega, GA). Various articles, 1912 and later. Accessed via Georgia Historic Newspapers: https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu.
• Georgia Death Records (1914–1940). Georgia Department of Health and Vital Statistics, Atlanta, Georgia. Accessed via Ancestry.com: Georgia, U.S., Death Records, 1914–1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
• Georgia Marriage Records (1828–1978). County-level records held at the Georgia Archives, Morrow, GA. Accessed via Ancestry.com: Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828–1978 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
• U.S. Selective Service Lists, World War I (1917–1918). Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group 163. National Archives at College Park, MD, and Atlanta, GA. Accessed via Ancestry.com: U.S., Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917–1918 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
• Forsyth County Customer Self-Service Portal
  An online database for zoning applications, plats, permits, and land use records. Available at: https://css.forsythco.com/EnerGov_Prod/SelfService/#/home

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Secondary Sources

• Jaspin, Elliot. Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
• Phillips, Patrick. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
• Bramblett, Annette. Forsyth County History Stories. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
• Carroll, Paloma Maria. “A White Man’s County”: Racial Violence, Vigilante Terrorism, and Black Flight in Forsyth County, Georgia. Master’s thesis, University of Georgia, 2018. Available online.
• Loewen, James W. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. New York: The New Press, 2005.
• Dodd, Sophia, and Tiffany Harte. “Forsyth 1912: Examining the Displacement of the County’s Black Residents.” Atlanta History Center, February 8, 2023. Accessed at https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/blog/forsyth-1912-examining-the-displacement-of-the-countys-black-residents/.
• Little, Becky. “In 1912, This Georgia County Drove Out Every Black Resident.” History.com, October 31, 2018. Accessed at https://www.history.com/articles/georgia-racial-expulsion-stacey-abrams.
• Parrish, Donna. Owners on 1910 Census and Colored Tax Digest of Forsyth County 1911–1917. Originally published at donnaparrish.com (site no longer active). Accessed via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20110710144128/http://donnaparrish.com/forsyth/1912/taxlists.html.
• Race and Reckoning in Forsyth County. Georgia Exhibits, GALILEO. Accessed at https://georgia-exhibits.galileo.usg.edu/spotlight/forsyth-race-relations.
• Banished. Directed by Marco Williams. Independent Lens, PBS, 2007. Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FayMoKwyoO4.
• 1912: The Forsyth County Expulsion and Its Aftermath. Podcast series by WABE and the Atlanta History Center. Accessed at https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/1912-forsyth-county/.