The Moore’s Ford Bridge case was a signal episode in the reign of racial terror in which thousands of black men, women and children were hanged, drowned, shot, burned or dismembered in states across the South between the end of Reconstruction, in 1877, and the dawn of the modern civil rights era, in 1950. The victims were often killed before cheering crowds without being charged with crimes and for minor transgressions like talking back to whites, competing with them in business or insisting on the right to vote.
Monday, October 8, 2018
American Christians in the Deep South (aka the Bible Belt) used to lynch African Americans.
New York Times - A Last Hope for Truth in a Mass Lynching. A federal appeals court should release records of a grand jury that held no one responsible for a 1946 Georgia horror.
The Moore’s Ford Bridge case was a signal episode in the reign of racial terror in which thousands of black men, women and children were hanged, drowned, shot, burned or dismembered in states across the South between the end of Reconstruction, in 1877, and the dawn of the modern civil rights era, in 1950. The victims were often killed before cheering crowds without being charged with crimes and for minor transgressions like talking back to whites, competing with them in business or insisting on the right to vote.
The Moore’s Ford Bridge case was a signal episode in the reign of racial terror in which thousands of black men, women and children were hanged, drowned, shot, burned or dismembered in states across the South between the end of Reconstruction, in 1877, and the dawn of the modern civil rights era, in 1950. The victims were often killed before cheering crowds without being charged with crimes and for minor transgressions like talking back to whites, competing with them in business or insisting on the right to vote.
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