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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. Tradition says that the murders were committed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton and Oconee counties between Monroe and Watkinsville , but the four victims, two married couples, were ...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 26, 2018.Featured among other things is the Memorial Corridor which displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing the counties in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. [7]
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
The Watkinsville lynching was a mass lynching that occurred in Watkinsville, Georgia, United States on June 30, 1905. The lynching, which saw a large mob seize 9 men from a local jail and kill 8 of them by gunfire, has been described as "one of the worst episodes of racial violence ever in Georgia." [1]
A graph of lynchings in the US by victim race and year [1] The body of George Meadows, lynched near the Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama, on January 15, 1889 Bodies of three African-American men lynched in Habersham County, Georgia, on May 17, 1892 Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January 20, 1916 (retouched photo due to material deterioration) Lynching of ...
The lynching. The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. ... He lost his bid for the Georgia state Senate, but he says he was encouraged by moments of solace while ...
These lynchings are examples of the racially motivated mob violence by white people against black people in the American South, especially during 1880 to 1930, the peak of lynchings. Brooks County in Georgia, and Georgia among the states, had the highest rates of lynching in the nation during this period [citation needed].
The event caused outrage among both the black population and prominent local white citizens, as this was the first lynching in coastal Georgia in over twenty years. [2] The reverend of a local Methodist church in Liberty County condemned the lynching during a sermon and sent a widely distributed letter accusing Wayne County officials of ...