A group of local church leaders launched the Forsyth Descendants Scholarship on Tuesday, Feb. 1, for college-aged descendants of Black families who were driven out of the county in 1912.
Local church leaders begin $10,000 scholarship for descendants of African American families forced out of Forsyth County in 1912
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