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  List of  Civil War & Beyond After the War In the post-Civil War era, the city also became known as a center of undergraduate education for freed slaves. Funds from the Athens Freedman's Bureau built the Knox School in 1867, while later the Methodist School and Jeruel Academy also opened to educate freed slaves. All three schools offered primary, intermediate, industrial, and nurses' training. African-Americans also had a strong presence through the press during this time with three black newspapers - the Athens Blade, the Athens Clipper, and the Progressive Era - in a time when it was rare for a southern town to have even one. Athens was eventually chartered as a city on August 24, 1872, with a mayor-council form of government. Captain Henry Beusse was the first mayor of Athens, and the citizens elected two representatives from each of four wards to serve on the commission. As the post-Civil War population began to rise, so did city improvements. The first police force o...

  Wilkes County, GA Jack Grant's Free Papers which allowed him to remain in Taliaferro County, Georgia as a free man after his slave master freed him in 1796. See Georgia Free Persons of Color, Michael A. Ports, Vol III, 1799-1865 p. 117 tori10asee2 tori10asee2   originally shared this on   21 Nov 2018 Georgia Free Persons of Color, Michael A. Ports, Vol III, 1799-1865 p. 117

  Pressley v. Jennings Annotate this Case 227 Ga. 366 (1971) 180 S.E.2d 896 PRESSLEY et al. v. JENNINGS et al. 26187. Supreme Court of Georgia. Argued November 10, 1971. Decided March 4, 1971. Rehearing Denied March 18, 1971. Heard & Leverett, E. Freeman Leverett, for appellants. George B. Brooks, Rupert A. Brown, J. Cleve Miller, for appellees. MOBLEY, Presiding Justice. Turner Jennings, Jr., and his lessee, Walter W. Peppers, brought a complaint for the recovery of two tracts of land, one containing 10 acres and the other 10.1 acres, against Thelma Pressley, and others, and their lessee, Walter McCannon, and his agent. It was alleged that McCannon, through his agent, has done work preparatory to operating a quarry on the land, and an injunction was sought against them. The parties stipulated that the tract containing 10.1 acres was the property of Jennings, and the only property in dispute is the tract containing 10 acres. It is a part of a tract of land containing 110 acres ...

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Nellie Quander was an incorporator and the first international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Her family could trace its lineage and sense of purpose for three hundred years in Maryland and Virginia. The Quanders are considered to be one of oldest free African American families whose ancestors had once been enslaved in America. Quander along with Smith, Norma Boyd, Julia Evangeline Brooks, Nellie Pratt Russell and Ethel Jones Mowbray moved to incorporate Alpha Kappa Alpha on January 29, 1913. After leading the initiative to incorporate the sorority, Quander served as president of Alpha Kappa Alpha. In 1918, at the first Boulé at Howard, she was officially elected president. After having served six years, at the next Boulé in 1919 at Chicago, Illinois, she resigned. During her tenure, she wrote the constitution’s preamble and appointed fellow members to implement the sorority’s expansion. Later, Quander was the first director of the North Atlantic Region of AKA