United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.974841930/1939Edgefield [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.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/Fourth of July celebrations--South Carolina--TrentonFirearmsAfrican Americans--Georgia--AugustaEducation--Georgia--AugustaRecreations--Georgia--Augusta[Photograph of the Fourth of July celebration at Bettis Academy, Edgefield County, South Carolina, 193- ]StillImage