About 30 miles north of Atlanta lies Forsyth County, Georgia. It’s home to about 270,000 residents who boast about Forsyth’s high-performing public schools and growing diverse communities. But in 1912, it was the site of a brutal racial cleansing that expelled about 1,100 Black residents.

Now, a new scholarship is helping descendants of those families reclaim their legacy.

We uncover the complex history of Forsyth County, its roots in racial violence and injustice and how current residents are having a serious reckoning with that past.