Georgia Church Lost

 "In 1965, three of the four Black churches in and around Tallapoosa, Georgia, were burned, possibly by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Only Whites Chapel AME, built in 1920, was spared due to its protected location in the heart of the town’s Black community. But nearly six decades later, Whites Chapel, which held its last services in the early 1980s, has succumbed to the elements and neglect. “What hatred did not destroy in the 1960s, gravity did 60 years later,” says Dale Gladden of the Tallapoosa Historical Society. In June, the building’s roof collapsed. It was the final blow for the church, where the congregation dated to the 1880s but had dwindled to just a few members a century later."

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