Activists Seek Action in 59-Year-Old GA Lynching Case

[Hissyspit]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQX2DZY6E.html

Activists Seek Action in 59-Year-Old Lynching Case in Georgia
By Eliott C. McLaughlin
Associated Press Writer

MONROE, Ga. (AP) - The crude, black "KKK" spray-painted on the underside of a newer bridge over the Apalachee River is the only suggestion of the lynchings that took place here nearly 59 years ago. In 1946, a white mob pulled four black sharecroppers from a car near the river's banks, dragged them down a wagon trail by the old Moore's Ford Bridge and shot them to death.

Now, dozens of politicians, activists and relatives of the victims are pressing a local prosecutor to use the FBI's original investigation to seek indictments against the few surviving suspects in the deaths of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey.

"This," declared state Rep. Tyrone Brooks of Atlanta, "was the most heinous collective crime ever perpetuated against African-Americans in this state."

This weekend, the group is hoping to gather support with two events: a rally Friday night at the courthouse and a march - led by Brooks - across the bridge Saturday.



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[acmavm]

1. I read the story, and I have one question. Who got lynched? It only says

that the two couples were pulled from the car and shot to death. Or did I miss something? Twice.

[CottonBear]

3. Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey

were lynched at the Moores'Ford Bridge. I live in a nearby county. There is a reconciliation committee that is doing great work to bring blacks and whites a together in our area. Richard Rusk (Dean Rusk's son) is one of the organizers. There are panel discussions, talent shows and scholarships for local high school students.

There is still much racism here. Once you leave Athens and the sphere of the University of Georgia you are back in the old south.

My office is just 15 minutes from where this took place.

There were many other lynchings and killings in the part of Georgia prior to this sad event.

[Richard Steele]

8. Yeah, you missed 500 years of progressive philosophy, 'acmavm'!

You obvious FREEP...er, I mean, "respected fellow DU member whom I happen to disagree with"

[NNN0LHI]

2. It is about time we begin working on the culture of life n/t

[NVMojo]

4. It was a heinous crime but even more heinous is the deadly silence ....

of the town which seems to have only remorse for being bothered by investigations related to the crime.

[saigon68]

5. DANGER GRAPHIC LYNCHING PHOTO

Lynching 1930

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm18.html




A mob of 10,000 whites took sledgehammers to the county jailhouse doors to get at these two young blacks accused of raping a white girl; the girl’s uncle saved the life of a third by proclaiming the man’s innocence. Although this was Marion, Ind., most of the nearly 5,000 lynchings documented between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence of “Judge Lynch.”) Some lynching photos were made into postcards designed to boost white supremacy, but the tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting as many as they scared. Today the images remind us that we have not come as far from barbarity as we’d like to think

ON EDIT: IT DIDN'T ONLY HAPPEN IN GEORGIA.


Check out the smiling "dating couples" in the lower left hand corner.

What a better way to spend a Saturday night in Marion Indiana, than watching 2 dead "Negro's" twist in the wind. With a few thousand of your closest friends. I wonder if these Christians went to CHURCH the next day?

It was still going on in 1968.

[Piperay]

6. Someone needs to pay for this crime

and 59 years is an awful long time to have to wait for justice. :mad:

[adwon]

7. Last I checked

murder was still a crime. If they've got the evidence, the failure to prosecute is a travesty.