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The lynching victims – George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcom – have been commemorated by a community memorial service in 1998, a state historical marker placed in 1999 at the site of the attack (Georgia's first official recognition of a lynching), and an annual re-enactment held since 2005.
After the mass lynching in Springfield, many African Americans left the area in a large exodus. Judge Azariah W. Lincoln called for a grand jury, but no one was prosecuted. The proceedings were covered by national newspapers, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Coker, Fred: 21 Allen, William: 25 Gillepsie, Nease: African American ...
A 1948 Ford Mercury passed through a group of onlookers in rural Monroe, Georgia, and rumbled toward the small Moore’s Ford Bridge.
The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 was a proposed bill to classify lynching (defined as bodily injury on the basis of perceived race, color, religion or nationality) a federal hate crime in the United States. The largely symbolic bill aimed to recognize and apologize for historical governmental failures to prevent lynching in the ...
It's unlikely that anyone is going to search out this set of circumstances by searching George W. Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, J Loy Harrison, or Lamar Howard. Much more likely would be Roger Malcom or Dorothy Malcom, whose initial domestic dispute led to the stabbing of Barnette Hester, the precipitant event to the lynching, yet neither Malcom ...
The lynching The tombstone of Mae Crow in Forsyth County's Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Three Black men were accused in 1912 of beating, raping and killing her, with little evidence.
Rusk had led an effort to commemorate the Moore's Ford lynchings by applying for a Georgia historical marker to be placed at the site of the lynching. The Georgia Historical Society erected a historical marker in 1999, the first historical marker in Georgia—and one of the first in the country—to document a lynching. Come to the Table were ...
Two Black men were lynched in Florence County, South Carolina near the border with Williamsburg County, South Carolina for allegedly having relations with a white woman. The news did not reach the national media until January 8, 1922, and so is recorded as the first lynching of 1922 in America. [1]