George W. Dorsey

Death by Force

George W. Dorsey, a 28-year-old African American man, was tragically killed on July 25, 1946, in Monroe, Georgia. Dorsey, a World War II veteran, had returned home after serving in the Pacific. On that fateful day, he, along with his wife Mae Murray Dorsey, and another African American couple, Roger and Dorothy Malcom, were brutally murdered by a mob of white men. This incident, known as the Moore's Ford lynchings, is often referred to as the last mass lynching in America.

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The Moore’s Ford Lynching (July 1946) •

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