Tamla Horsford

Truer Crime

Celisia Stanton

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

From 1920 to 1940, no Black people lived in Forsyth County, Georgia. None. But by the time Tamla Horsford moved there with her family, a lot had changed. Or so it seemed, until Tamla was found dead in the Fall of 2018. Suddenly, a century’s worth of trauma resurfaced in the once all-white Georgia county. Today’s episode reveals what happens when a woman and a county collide. Please be aware that today’s episode references lynching and other racial violence. Please take care while listening. Action Items Related to Today’s Episode: Learn more about Tamla and follow any developments on her case at @justicefortam on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/justicefortam/). Check out and support The Georgia Newspaper Project at www.libs.uga.edu/gnp and www.libs.uga.edu/development/support. Explore the Atlanta History Center's online collect Forsyth 1912 project, which seeks to collect the histories of descendants of Forsyth County’s expelled Black residents: https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/learning-research/projects-initiatives/originals/forsyth-1912/. You can also donate to support their work here: https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/support. A full list of sources, resources mentioned, and photos related to the case are available in the show notes of today's episode, https://truercrimepodcast.com/tamla-horsford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.6	To hold you over, enjoy this early season 2 episode, a taste of what's to come.
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0:49.7	Please be aware that today's episode references Lynn Ching and other racial violence.
0:54.7	Please take care while listening.
0:59.2	When May Crow's body was found in the brush of the woods, Forsyth County grieved. It was September of
1:05.7	1912 and May had been just 18 years old. At that time, Forsyth, which sits just
1:12.3	north of Atlanta, Georgia, was still mainly a rural
1:15.2	farming community.
1:17.0	According to Brendan Keith and Lindsay Base writing for 11 alive, suspects and May's attack
1:22.2	were arrested quickly.
1:24.1	It's easy to solve a case, it turns out.
1:26.9	If your strategy is to find the closest black folks
1:30.1	to the crime.
1:31.6	And I say it that way, because that's how it happened.
1:34.7	Remember that this was Jim Crow, Georgia in 1912, less than 50 years after the end of slavery.
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