A Carnival of Crimes: Atlanta's "Black Week"

Shockingly Wicked: A True Crime Podcast

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Voice actor Amanda C. Miller joins us again for our season finale as we discuss Atlanta's "Black Week", also referred to as Atlanta's "Dark Week" or the Carnival of Crimes. In 1893, starting on January 24th and lasting until February 25th, "Black Week" can only be described as a series of distressing events, including forbidden love, embezzlement, and murder in the city of Atlanta, Georgia.

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Sources we used for this episode:

• https://oaklandcemetery.com/a-carnival-of-crimes/

• Gordon County, GA Obituaries from February 2nd, 1983 (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/gordonobits/do:gco-nr-00003937)

• The Morning News, March 23rd, 1983 edition (https://www.gastearsivi.com/gazete/morning_news/1893-03-23/1)

• The Macon Telegraph - January 25th, 1893 edition (https://www.newspapers.com/image/591414038)

• The Chattanooga Daily Times, January 25th, 1893 edition (https://www.newspapers.com/image/604728032/)

• Atlanta City Directory Co.'s Greater Atlanta (Georgia) city directory (https://archive.org/details/08951025.1893/page/n923/mode/2up)

• The Atlanta Constitution, January 27th, 1893 edition (https://www.newspapers.com/image/26818655/)

• The Atlanta Constitution, March 28th, 1893 edition (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89053706/1893-03-28/ed-1/seq-3/)

• Death extracts (Atlanta) vol 2 1890 Nov 1893 (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61953/images/FS_007402822_00046?usePUB=true&_phsrc=TnU3&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=264055)

• Fulton and Campbell Counties, Georgia, Cemetery Records, 1857-1933 (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61953/images/FS_007354910_00025?usePUB=true&_phsrc=TnU4&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=64222)

• “Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s” by Franklin M. Garrett

• “Wicked Atlanta: The Sordid Side of Peach City History” by Laurel-Ann Dooley

• “The Free Thought Magazine, Volume 11” (page 198) by H.L. Green

• https://oaklandcemetery.com/resident-spotlight-lewis-redwine/

• http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2011/03/crazy-julia-force-shoots-and-kills-her.html

• http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2011/03/miss-julia-forces-story-why-she.html

• http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2011/03/julia-force-will-not-be-hanged-to-be.html

• http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2011/03/to-asylum-goes-murderess-julia-force.html

• http://peachypast.blogspot.com/2011/03/julia-force-is-dead-southern-family.html

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