JEFFERSON CO. GA. SCLC

THE BEGINNING

THE JEFFERSON CO. GA. SCLC

Lft. to Rt. Jerry Brown, John Mack, George Cooper, Eugene Washington, Bobby Adams

James Ivery, Clarence Johnson, Frank Boyd, George W. Boatwright, Phillip McBride, Willie Paul Lowery.

THE BEGINNING, THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACKS IN JEFFERSON CO. GA. 

JUST AFTER THE SLAVERY ERA,

The Struggle of Jefferson Co. Ga. for freedom from Jim Crow, Racism, Racial Discrimination, Police Brutality, Unsolved murders of black folks, hangings of black folks, cotton picking  jobs, round logging jobs, pulp wood jobs, cleaning of the white folks houses jobs, unbalanced black to whites economic systems, mostly whites owned businesses, very little to no judicial representation, no  Government jobs or involvement, Segregated Schools, and Exploitation of black folks, just to name a few.

In the year of our Lord 1970 a Jefferson Co. Ga.  Chapter of the SCLC was instituted in the county of Jefferson, the chapter voted Mr. George W. Boatwright in as president and the fight for equal rights continued. Much was done and many things were changed for the betterment of black folks living in Jefferson Co. Ga., the great work of the Jefferson Co. Ga. SCLC organization led by Mr. Boatwright changed the face of Jefferson County and paved the way to a better life for all living in the County.

The above picture  depicts the brave freedon fighters who were arrested during the 1970-1975 struggle and taken to prison, brutily beaten, tear gased and maced, clothes torn off all because they chose to be men and take a strong stand for Constitutional Rights and  fight the powers of Jefferson county that kept black folks in a modified slavery.

                                                                        Mr. George W. Boatwright