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URL:https://www.georgiahistory.com/events/historical-marker-dedication-rep
 resentative-abram-colby-c-1820-1872/
SUMMARY:Historical Marker Dedication: Representative Abram Colby (c.1820-18
 72)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the dedication of a new Georgia historical m
 arker about Representative Abram Colby.\n\nThe dedication is public and wi
 ll take place on Sunday\, April 26\, at 3:00 p.m.\, on the lawn of the Gre
 ene County Courthouse at 113 N. Main Street in Greensboro. Street parking 
 is available around the court house and in downtown Greensboro.\n\nThe his
 torical marker reads:\nRepresentative Abram Colby (c.1820-1872)\nAfrican-A
 merican leader Abram Colby represented Greene County’s Black community f
 ollowing emancipation. Under the US Southern Homestead Act (1866)\, Colby 
 unsuccessfully applied for land in Arkansas to relocate Greene County Afri
 can-American citizens. Colby later advocated for Black education and fair 
 labor contracts. Elected a Republican state representative in 1868\, Colby
  and his fellow Black legislators were expelled because of their race. The
  Ku Klux Klan (KKK) targeted Republicans who supported Reconstruction and 
 assaulted Colby in a near-fatal attack. In White v. Clements (1869)\, the 
 Georgia Supreme Court affirmed African Americans’ right to hold politica
 l office\, reinstating Colby’s seat. In 1871 Colby testified about the K
 KK’s political terrorism in the South before a federal congressional com
 mittee\, leading to the prosecution of KKK members and shifting public per
 ception. Colby was targeted until his death in 1872.\nErected by the Georg
 ia Historical Society and the Greene County African American Museum
CATEGORIES:Historical Markers
LOCATION:Greene County Court House\, 113 N. Main Street\, Greensboro\, GA\,
  30642\, United States
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