The Laurens County, Georgia race riot was an attack on the black community by white mobs in August 1919.

In the Haynes' report, as summarized in the New York Times, it is called the Ocmulgee, Georgia race riot.

[1] Earlier in the summer the incident surrounding the Dublin, Georgia riot had greatly alarmed the white community in Laurens County.

[4] The body may have belonged to Eli Cooper who was alleged to have said that "the negroes had been run over for fifty years, but this will all change in thirty days.

They were C. G. Rogers, Coroner of Dodge County; C. C. Adwell; John Quillian; and Will Watson, who were quickly acquitted of all charges.