Posted on 07/26/2005 3:22:06 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
ATLANTA — As a 20-year-old civil rights activist in 1968, Tyrone Brooks drove 40 miles from Atlanta to Walton County to meet Dan Young, who ran the county’s only black funeral home.
“Young man, I want to show you something,” Brooks remembers Young telling him.
In the funeral home’s basement, Young pulled out a folder containing photographs of bodies — the victims, Young told Brooks, of the last open public mass lynching in the United States.
“That really got my attention,” said Brooks, now a representative in the Georgia House.
Nearly 40 years later, those disturbing photos still have Brooks’ attention.
On Monday, the 59th anniversary of the lynchings that took place on July 25, 1946, he and other civil rights activists planned a re-enactment to gain support for the arrest and prosecution of anyone who may have been involved.
Just one month ago, 1,000 members of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials unanimously passed a resolution urging prosecutors to bring charges for the first time in the unsolved lynchings.
The photos were of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey, four young black sharecropperswho were shot on the Apalachee River.
The re-enactment was to begin on what is believed to be Barney Hester’s property, where Roger Malcom had been arrested not long before the lynching. A fight between the two men hospitalized Hester, a white man, and landed Malcom in jail.
A few days later, according to the FBI’s 500-page report on the killings, the Malcoms and the Dorseys were riding with a white farmer when 20 to 25 white men stopped the car on the Moore’s Ford bridge. The mob forced the couples out of the car, dragged them down a wagon trail about 50 yards from the bridge and shot them with pistols and shotguns. The farmer was spared.
The FBI report named 55 suspects. Brooks said he knows of two living in Walton County and a few others outside Georgia.
Walton County District Attorney Ken Wynne has said that he understands the desire for justice but that the case lacks sufficient witnesses and evidence.
The FBI was ordered by President Truman to investigate the case in 1946 but was thwarted by a lack of witnesses.
activists = agitators & baiters
Tyrone Brooks is a fool. He supported a child molester and cult leader over a sheriff who is a respected and decent man who does his duty.
"(York) is certainly a target of the sheriff," Brooks said. "The sheriff of the county has made it a personal mission to destroy the character of the Nuwaubians. I would be highly suspicious of any charges such as these, knowing the kind of man that he is. I've been around Dr. York, and I've spent a lot time with him."
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I know Brooks personally and I despise him.
Democrats commemorating Democrat history.
I'm all for it.
Its in Sheets Byrd's collection of CDs.
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