1912: The Forsyth County Expulsion and Its Aftermath

WABE

1912 is a podcast about the expulsion of more than 1,000 Black residents from Forsyth County, Georgia and its lasting impact on the families affected. We’ll explore how a combination of popular myth and generations of displacement contributed to the attempted erasure of an entire Black community. A limited series from Atlanta History Center. Find more at wabe.org/1912

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1912: The Forsyth County Expulsion and Its Aftermath

Episodes (10)

Aug 4, 2025 Introducing Buried Truths, Season 5: A Preacher, a Policeman, and a Physician
Dec 20, 2024 The Making of ‘1912’ (Live from the AHC)
Dec 10, 2024 Episode 5: The Present

1912: The Forsyth County Expulsion and Its Aftermath

Aug 4, 2025
3 minutes
3 MB

Four days before Christmas in 1957, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and newspaper ad salesman in Columbus, Georgia, walked into town to pick up his paycheck. Forty-eight years old and known as “Reverend” to many, the tall, lean man with wire-rimmed glasses left his home and headed toward The Columbus World, a black newspaper where Pickett worked. Pickett, who’d been a boy preacher, was showing signs of mental instability and had spent time in the county jail and the state mental hospital, which was notorious for employing doctors with addictions, poor training and racist beliefs. Before the day was ov...

1912: The Forsyth County Expulsion and Its Aftermath

Introducing Buried Truths, Season 5: A Preacher, a Policeman, and a Physician

WABE

00:00 -02:53