In the summer of 1946, a horrific act of violence cut short the life of Mae Murray Dorsey, a 23-year-old African American woman, near Monroe, Georgia. On July 25th, Mae, her husband George Dorsey, and another couple, Roger and Dorothy Malcom, were brutally murdered by a white mob in an event that would become known as the Moore's Ford Bridge lynching. The group was returning from the Walton County jail where a white farmer, Loy Harrison, for whom they worked as sharecroppers, had just posted bon
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