George W. Dorsey

In the summer of 1946, George W. Dorsey, a 28-year-old Black man and a veteran of World War II, had been home in Georgia for less than a year after serving his country for five years in the Pacific. On July 25th, he, along with his wife Mae Murray Dorsey, his sister Dorothy Dorsey Malcom, and her husband Roger Malcom, were brutally murdered by a mob of white men near Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton County. The horrific event, which became known as the 'Last Mass Lynching in America,' unfolded afte ...

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The Moore’s Ford Lynching (July 1946) •