finally there was levi greenlee a black minister who wants 120 acres in the county and late in his life was inducted as the first only black member group of white clergyman called the high tor baptist association i should add i'm very honored to have three of levi greenlee's descendents with us here. deidre stewart charles levi growth and -- [applause] their generosity and kindness to me when i was a total stranger calling to ask about their family is typical of the many descendents i interviewed and meeting the great grandchildren and great great grandchildren of forsyth's community has been one of the reports of this work. i could never have told the story without their help. all these discovers in the courthouse as libraries and archives of georgia helped expose the falseness of the very can demand old lie. all the black refugees have been marginal and never all and much in the county anyway so their expulsion was no major crime. this was implied and said overly as a kid. instead i learned large and prosperous owners like kellogg and levi greenlee who were written -- driven out not b

instead i learned large prosperous donors like kellogg and levi greenlee who work not driven out by klansmen that ordinary white men they had known and worked with all their lives. which brings us finally to the most fraught issue at all -- of all and that is the issue of land in preparation. in 1987 the wake of the violent brotherhood marches governor joe frank harris appointed a bi-racial committee to investigate the history of violence and versailles in to look into the charge of coal unlawfully taken lampett i want to read a brief passage and it will give you a sense of how the community worked in a tightly controversial findings. the story stated from the news headlines so i never knew what became of this committee. made a lot of headlines when it was violence that took a year for this committee to go through its work and i had never seen their findings so i was working on that. only a week after news cameras recorded shocking scenes of mob violence in january 17, 1970 meeting rooms at the versailles county courthouse worse sealed with racial strife at his local lawyers and businessmen