AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Augusta Mini Theatre held a ceremony Monday remembering a 1970 riot and honoring mortician Carrie J. Mays.
The event marked 56 years since downtown Augusta erupted as thousands protested and set fire to businesses after the suspicious death of Charles Oatman, a Black teenage inmate.
Two patients were transported to Emory University Hospital’s serious communicable diseases unit and are showing signs of hantavirus.
Mays discovered Oatman had been severely beaten in jail and spoke out after the community was told he died from falling out of his bed…