By Victor Trammell Photo credits: The Macon Telegraph On January 26, 1970, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the Georgia Supreme Court's decision to close, rather than integrate, a local public park in Macon, Georgia. U.S. Senator Augustus O. Bacon died in 1914, and his will left the city of Macon, Georgia, with 'a park […]

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