Abstract

Justice in Georgia

The article discusses law and order situation in the U.S. state of Georgia. In the town of Americus, Georgia, there is temporarily quartered a portion of Company K, 24th Infantry (colored), of the regular army. These doughboys have left their rifles and soldierly equipment many miles away and are temporarily in Americus to dig iron pipe out of the site of the now-abandoned Souther Field for transport and reinstallation in Fort Benning, where the wooden water mains are rotting away. On September 1,1925, a white night watchman in a lumberyard had his "dinner" brought at about ten o'clock by his wife and child. They came down a street through the Negro section of the town, past a crowd of Negroes congregated in front of a dance hail; as far as can be discovered they were not molested or accosted in any way.