Activists March, Seek Leads in 1946 Lynching
From Times Wire Reports
Activists marched near the site where four black sharecroppers were killed July 25, 1946, hoping publicity about the lynchings would cause someone to step forward with information so the deaths could at last be prosecuted.
A white mob pulled two men and two women from a car near the Moore’s Ford bridge about 40 miles east of Atlanta, dragged them down a trail and shot them.
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