This poster will highlight African American history in and around Andersonville, Georgia. African American history begins with the enslaved individuals- and enslaved Black Union soldiers- who built and worked in the Civil War POW camp. After emancipation, a community of Freedmen were given the property and moved in to the abandoned structures of the POW camp, including a hospital. This community went on to establish a Freedmen's school before being forced out by a white mob. Americus and Leesburg are areas steeped in history from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The poster highlights the Americus Four- the four first Black students to integrate Americus high school-, the Leesburg Stockade Girls, and the Church Kneel-Ins.
