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Moores Ford Massacre: Activists Reenact Racist Lynching as a Call for Justice
by CHELSEA BAILEY
AUG 2 2017, 4:15 PM ET
A 1948 Ford Mercury passed through a group of onlookers in rural Monroe, Georgia, and rumbled toward the small Moore’s Ford Bridge.
Before the car, which had four black passengers and a white driver, could reach the bridge, a group of white men with guns stepped forward to block its path.
The leader of the mob — a middle aged man in a pinstriped suit — took a long drag on his cigar and peered through the windshield. Inside, the occupants reeled in fear.
"We want that n----r Roger!” the man barked. “Get him out of the car!"
More:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/moore-s-ford-massacre-activists-reenact-racist-lynching-call-justice-n787831
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