Dublin, Georgia

==History==
The original settlement was named after [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |author=Gannett, Henry |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n108 109]}}</ref>

[[File:Veterans Administration Bldg., Dublin, Ga. (8367048897).jpg|thumb|left|Old postcard showing the Veterans Administration building]]
Dublin, according to a historical marker<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gahistmarkers/jeffdavishistmarker3.htm |title=GeorgiaInfo :: Carl Vinson Institute of Government :: University of Georgia |publisher=Cviog.uga.edu |access-date=March 24, 2013}}</ref> at the town's main [[Oconee River]] bridge, was one of the last encampments at which [[President of the Confederate States of America|Confederate President]] [[Jefferson Davis]] and his family stayed before being captured by [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces in May 1865.

In the [[Dublin, Georgia riot|Dublin riot of July 1919]] there were a series of violent racial riots between white and black members of the community. These were part of a larger series of racial violence during the [[Red Summer|1919 Red Summer]].

On April 17, 1944, [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] gave his first public speech, "The Negro and the Constitution" at First African Baptist Church in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|last1=University|first1=© Stanford|last2=Stanford|last3=California 94305|date=June 12, 2017|title=King delivers "The Negro and the Constitution" at oratorical contest|url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/king-delivers-negro-and-constitution-oratorical-contest|access-date=February 22, 2021|website=The Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute|language=en}}</ref>