Mae Murray Dorsey

Death by Force

Mae Murray Dorsey, a 23-year-old African American woman, was brutally murdered on July 25, 1946, in Monroe, Georgia. Her death was part of a horrific event known as the Moore's Ford lynchings, where she, along with her husband George Dorsey and another couple, Roger and Dorothy Malcom, were killed by a mob of white men. The incident occurred on a dirt road near the Moore's Ford Bridge, spanning the Apalachee River, about 60 miles east of Atlanta. The victims were shot multiple times by 12 to 15 ...Read More

The Moore’s Ford Lynching (July 1946) •

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