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Historian Seeks Sealed Grand Jury Transcripts In Notorious Lynching of Two Black Couples by White Mob
ATLANTA (AP) — Seven decades ago, a federal grand jury in Georgia heard 16 days of testimony but declared itself unable identify or indict anyone involved in the brazen lynching of two young black couples on a country road. Now a historian is fighting to find out what happened in that grand jury room.
A car carrying the four sharecroppers was stopped by a white mob at Moore’s Ford Bridge, overlooking the Apalachee River, in July 1946. They were pulled from the car and shot multiple times along the banks of the river, a little more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Atlanta... Read More.
Source: atlantablackstar.com






