The Early County Massacre

Download or read book The Early County Massacre written by Orice Jenkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Orice Jenkins tells the full story of Ulysses Goolsby and the Early County massacre more than 100 years later. The Early County Massacre has been known as the Grandison Goolsby War for over a century, focusing on the events of December 30th, 1915, when 46-year-old Grandison used gunfire to defend himself from a lynching mob. Lesser known is that the incident started two days earlier when Grandison's son was attacked on his way to a wedding, and that it all led to the Supreme Court of Georgia sending that same son to death row five years later.