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. With white Democrats having regained power in the state legislature they passed a poll tax in 1877 which disenfranchised many poor blacks and whites preventing them from registering in 1908 the state established a white primary; with the only competitive contests within the Democratic Party it was another way to exclude blacks from politics They constituted 46.7% of the state's population in 1900 but the proportion of Georgia's population that was African American dropped thereafter to 28% primarily due to tens of thousands leaving the state during the Great Migration According to the Equal Justice Institute's 2015 report on lynching in the United States (1877-1950) Georgia had 531 deaths the second-highest total of these extralegal executions of any state in the South the overwhelming number of victims were black and male Political disfranchisement persisted through the mid-1960s until after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. . . 1840 691,392 33.8% 54 Max Fried, "He looked away from the buildings and out over the ocean of trees Since Atlanta was not a port city and was in fact far inland the trees stretched on in every direction They were Atlanta's greatest natural resource those trees were People loved to live beneath them.", In golf the final PGA Tour event of the season the Tour Championship is played annually at East Lake Golf Club This golf course is used because of its connection to the great amateur golfer Bobby Jones an Atlanta native; Home Attendance at Turner Field The area sprawls across the low foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the north and the Piedmont to the south the northern and some western suburbs tend to be higher and significantly more hilly than the southern and eastern suburbs the average elevation is around 1,000 feet (300 m).