Moore's Ford lynchings

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The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of unmasked white men in the U.S. state of Georgia. The lynching victims were two married couples: George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Dorsey Malcom. Tradition says that the murders were committed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton County and Oconee County, Georgia, between Monroe and Watkinsville. However, the victims were shot and killed on a nearby dirt road. The case attracted national attention and catalyzed large protests in Washington, DC, and New York City. President Harry Truman created the President's Committee on Civil Rights and his administration introduced anti-lynching legislation in Congress but could not get it past the Southern Democratic bloc. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated for four months in 1946, the first time it had been ordered to investigate a civil rights case, but it was unable...

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