The Forsyth Descendants Scholarship is currently offering up to $10,000 per year to students who can trace their lineage back to the families who were violently displaced from the county over a century ago.
In 1912, the landscape of Forsyth County was changed forever by racial terror as more than 1,000 Black families were expelled. Six years after the Atlanta Race Massacre in September 1912, White residents accused three Black men of assaulting Mae Crow, a White woman from Oscarville. Following her death, one of the men was lynched, and the other two were publicly executed after a swift conviction.
A group known as the “Night Riders” violently forced families out. The families left behind their homes, land, and the lives that they knew…