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To: doodad

Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks walks past the overgrown yard of the home outside of Monroe, Ga., believed to be the farmhouse of Barney Hester, Sunday, July 24, 2005. As a 20-year-old civil rights activist, in 1968, Brooks met Dan Young, who ran the Walton county's only black funeral home, where he viewed pictures of dead bodies, who were the victims, Young told Brooks, of the last open public mass lynchings in the U.S. On Monday, the 59th anniversary of the lynchings, Brooks and other civil rights activists will re-enact that fateful day with a march starting at this property, in hopes of gaining support for the arrest and prosecution of anyone still alive who may have been involved or responsible. (AP Photo/Ric Feld) (Ric Feld - AP)

3 posted on 07/26/2005 2:24:11 PM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: yankeedame

How far is this place from the black Funeral Home where the director threw the bodies out in the sheds and lawn instead of cremating them?


6 posted on 07/26/2005 2:44:14 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: yankeedame

"As a 20-year-old civil rights activist..."

He sure looks older than that in your photo!


17 posted on 07/27/2005 9:03:27 AM PDT by CSM ( If the government has taken your money, it has fulfilled its Social Security promises. (dufekin))
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