In the summer of 1946, a horrific act of violence cut short the life of Dorothy Dorsey Malcom, a 20-year-old African American woman from Monroe, Georgia. The events leading to her death began with an altercation involving her husband, Roger Malcom, who was arrested after stabbing a white farmer. On July 25, 1946, Dorothy, who was reportedly seven months pregnant, accompanied her brother George Dorsey and his wife Mae Murray Dorsey, along with a white farmer named J. Loy Harrison, to post bail fo
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