Last Saturday, the fifth annual reenactment of a horrific lynching at Moore’s Ford Bridge in Monroe, Ga., helped bring attention to the unsolved crime.
On July 25, 1946, two African-American couples and an unborn child were killed by a group of armed men, who riddled them with so many bullets that their bodies were practically unrecognizable. Some of the men are still believed to be living in Walton County.
The last public lynching in America took place 62 years ago near Atlanta, but the quest for justice continues.
Dorothy Malcom was seven months pregnant on July 25, 1946 when she, her husband Roger, and another couple, George and Mae Murray Dorsey, were lynched at Moore’s Ford Bridge near Monroe. Sixty-two years later, the unborn baby received a name – Justice Malcom.
The surviving members of the Malcom family adopted the name at the rally preceding the fourth annual re-enactment of the lynching Friday. The name reflects the need for justice in the last public lynching case in America, says Georgia Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D. Atlanta. The case remains unsolved.
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