William Dennis

On Sunday afternoon, March 31, 1991, William Dennis “Billy” Moore II, a 20-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, was caught up in a devastating automobile crash near the Cedar Crossing community while he was visiting Lyons, Georgia.

The notices that remain publicly available describe his death as the result of injuries sustained in that wreck, a sudden chain of events that ended far from where he was born. In Lyons, he was connected to the First Baptist Church, and the trip that ...