Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot

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"Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot" tells the story of one of the first major Civil Rights era riots in the South. The immediate cause of the August riot was the murder of Charles Oatman, an African American teenager held by police in the county jail. During the riot, six Black men were killed by white police officers, all of them shot in the back.
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Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta RiotBy Georgia Public Broadcasting

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