Lynching & racial terror
The Moore's Ford Bridge lynching
25 July 1946Moore's Ford Bridge on the Apalachee River, Walton and Oconee county line, Monroe, GA
Two young Black couples - one man just home from the war, one woman seven months pregnant - were taken from a car at Moore's Ford Bridge and shot sixty times. The FBI's largest investigation to that date produced no indictment.
- People killed
- 4
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