Different kind of Memorial Day marks Black soldiers’ deaths in Georgia

ajc.com ^ | 5/25/23 | Ernie Suggs

[Midwesterner53]

In November of 1946 — just back from Europe and still in his uniform — U.S. Army veteran Hosea Williams had the audacity to try to get a glass of water at an Americus bus stop.

Just a year earlier, he had spent four months in an army hospital suffering from rheumatic fever, before nearly getting crippled after he walked into an ambush that killed every member of his all-Black unit.

None of that seemed to matter as the white mob beat him within an inch of his life. So bad was the beating that a Black undertaker was summoned to peel his lifeless body off the pavement. The undertaker found a pulse and took him to a hospital instead of the morgue.

[Midwesterner53]

Just another way to divide us from Georgia's premier left wing newspaper. I wonder if for Juneteenth they will list every white person in Georgia killed by black folks since the end of WW2? Might be a long list.

[larrytown]

My, how time flies - why, it only seems like SEVENTY-SIX years ago last November...

[hanamizu]

Just another way to divide us from Georgia’s premier left wing newspaper.

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When I was a nipper, the holiday was called ‘Decoration Day’. A day when people decorated the graves of men who fought on both sides during the Civil War. The point was to try and unite us. Times have changed.

[BenLurkin]

“Keep hate alive.” - Jesse Jackson

[Leep]

Hosea? Black Hispanic?

[IYAS9YAS]

Hosea? Black Hispanic?

Hosea is a Hebrew name. It means "salvation" or "He saves."

[minnesota_bound]

It was democrats who beat the guy.

[Glad2bnuts]

Nearly beaten to death by Democrats.