Below are excerpts from an address made the Georgia Governor as he stood before the Georgia State Committee on Race Relations in the Spring of 1921 concerning the numerous acts of racism inflicted upon African-Americans in his state:
“In some counties the Negro is being driven out as though he were a wild beast; in others he is being held as a slave. In other counties no negros remain. No effort has been made to collect the cases cited. If such an effort were made, I believe the number could be multiplied. In only two of the 135 cases [previously] cited is crime against White women involved.”
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey (1871 – 1948) presented the committee with a pamphlet titled The Negro in Georgia and went on to discuss ways to reduce the violence and remedy the injustices.
(The Georgia Government document pertaining to his address can be read here).
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