Posted on 07/25/2023 3:39:48 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A quadruple lynching in rural Georgia on this date in 1946 shocked America.
These murders of two African-American couples near Moore’s Ford Bridge are described even to this day as America’s last unresolved mass lynching; that dubious milestone distinction also forms the subtitle of Laura Wexler’s Fire in the Canebrake, a 2004 book about the incident.
Just last year — 2015 — the FBI was reported to be investigating the Moore’s Ford lynching anew. SixtySeventy years on, it’s still just possible that a perpetrator or two remains alive who might be brought to book … provided the curtain of silence Walton County drew around itself so long ago can finally be lifted.
The victims of the lynching were the Dorseys (George and Mae) and the Malcoms (Roger and Dorothy), black sharecroppers employed by a farmer named J. Loy Harrison. Roger Malcom had been clapped in jail in Monroe, Ga., for stabbing a white man; on the day of the lynching, Harrison drove Dorothy Malcom and the Dorseys to Monroe, where he posted bail for Roger.
Just why Harrison did this appears to be one of the many mysteries of Moore’s Ford Bridge. Harrison was a Klansman, so one possible inference is that he was complicit in the events that were about to transpire; however, as Wexler notes, this bailing-out “favor” would not have been at all unusual for a Walton County plantation owner to do for his help....
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Not sure these qualify as lynching; just some people doing some things to some people.
In the entire history of the US, the total number of lynchings has been fewer than 5000. And not all of them were black. White people got lynched too. Also Jews.
Currently, over 2500 blacks are killed by blacks every year in this country. That’s over 5000 in just 2 years. Over and over and over.
Lynching isn’t good. But it’s a historical anomaly of some importance, but not really great importance. The current crime rate tolerated by the ghetto culture is far more significant. It’s an ongoing tragedy — but blacks don’t want to look it at because they’re too busy pointing fingers at what whitey did back about 100 years ago.
As do the defiled bodies of Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington, mourned only by their parents and a few others.
Just to name a few.
White Republicans got lynched too.
FTFY
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"The 'party' entailed forcing all four black men and women - whatever their names were - out of Harrison’s car, lining them up in front of an ad hoc firing squad, and on the count of three, gunning them all down. That night, all four corpses would be found riddled with bullets (the coroner estimated some 60 gunshots had been fired in all) and strewn near the bridge."
I see a term misused a lot.. Sharecropper...A sharecropper was a farmer that did not own land, but managed his own affairs,, He paid rent in the form of a *share * of his profits.. this could vary, but was usually around 25%..In most of these types of reports,, share cropper is misused instead of day labor..
America’s largest mass lynching took place in New Orleans on March 14, 1891, when eleven Italian-Americans were shot and mutilated by a mob of thousands. They sought to avenge the murder of a popular police chief who was believed to have been killed by Italians.
“Stabbing a white man....”. Self-defense, or attempted murder? We have a monument in town to an accused rapist that was lynched.
Cannon Hinnant
Cash Gernon
Landen Hoffman
Tessa Majors
Wichita horror
Channon Christian
Christopher Newsom
Morningside Heights atrocity
I had always heard it called "farming on the halves" with the landowner and the sharecropper each getting half of the crop. Of course, the landowner had to supply the mules and other equipment.
Since certain communities are keeping score, perhaps we should too
More blacks were murdered in Chicago last weekend than all the black lynche in 1946 in the whole country.
More blacks were murdered in Chicago last weekend than all the black lynched in 1946 in the whole country.
The criminals doing the daily shootings have no money to sue for or pay damages..
You can make a safe bet it was democrats.
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