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 | | Augusta (Georgia) Riot of 1970 | | by balisunset, Sep 1, 2008 | | The Augusta (Georgia) Riot of 1970 began on the evening of May 11 and ended before dawn the next day. During the riot, six people were killed, all black men, each one shot in the back by police. In addition to those deaths, 80 people were injured, 200 were arrested, and 50 businesses in the city’s center, many owned by Augusta’s Chinese residents, were burned. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Necessary Conditions for War | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 25, 2008 | | An examination of the phenomenon of popular support for the American Civil War in Augusta County, Virginia, 1861. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 4 |
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