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The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of white men.
26 Ιαν 2007 · More than 450 documented lynchings occurred in Georgia alone. Lynching refers to the illegal killing of a person by a group of others. It does not refer to the method of killing. Lynching victims were murdered by being hanged, shot, burned, drowned, dismembered, or dragged to death.
2 Δεκ 2015 · On July 14, 1946, four African American sharecroppers were lynched at Moore’s Ford in northeast Georgia in an event now described as the “last mass lynching in America.” Yet the killers of George Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcolm, and Dorothy Malcolm were never brought to justice.
On July 25, 1946, two young African American couples were lynched near the Moore’s Ford Bridge 60 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia. George W. Dorsey (a veteran of WWII), Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger, and Dorothy Malcom (seven months pregnant) were accosted by a mob of white men as they headed to their home.
On July 25, 1946, a white mob lynched two Black couples near Moore’s Ford Bridge in Walton County, Georgia, in what has been called “the last mass lynching in America.” The couples killed were George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey and Dorothy and Roger Malcolm.
"Georgia becomes the first State in the Nation to record a lynching for 1949," the state's leading black. paper, the Atlanta Daily World, reported grimly. Local whites unflinch- ingly expressed support for the killing; one quipped that it "didn't as much as upset a checker game."
19 Ιουν 2016 · Author Anthony Pitch discusses his book, The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
