- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of the Fourth of July celebration at Bettis Academy, Edgefield County, South Carolina, 193- ]
- Date of Original:
- 1930/1939
- Subject:
- Fourth of July celebrations--South Carolina--Trenton
Firearms
African Americans--Georgia--Augusta
Education--Georgia--Augusta
Recreations--Georgia--Augusta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Edgefield [County], South Carolina 1930s.
Fourth of July celebration at Bettis Academy. Blacks all along the Georgia-South Carolina border would come to this annual event which the whites "allowed" them to have. The guns are not real. Mr. Bettis was a black educator. Event began soon after the Civil War. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_ric115
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:ric115
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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