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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 ...
In February 2007, the Georgia NAACP and the Prison and Jail Project sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting a federal probe of the murder of Maceo Snipes. [12] In announcing the reopening of decades-old suspicious murders in the civil rights era a few weeks after the request, the U.S. Justice Department declined to ...
Sociologist Arthur F. Raper investigated one hundred lynchings during the 1930s and estimated that approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [4] [5] On a per capita basis, lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total.
A 1948 Ford Mercury passed through a group of onlookers in rural Monroe, Georgia, and rumbled toward the small Moore’s Ford Bridge.
[2] Many northern newspapers picked up the story, and Time published an article in the August 26, 1946 edition. [3] Two other 1946 lynchings had occurred in Columbia, Tennessee and Monroe, Georgia, prior to the Minden debacle, and despite resistance and consternation from J. Edgar Hoover, and a no bill returned from a local grand jury, the FBI ...
“The last recording lynching in the United States was in 1981,” says Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded a civil rights... View Article The post Washington Post harrowingly reports ...
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.
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.