8th Annual Reenactment of the Lynchings at Moore’s Ford Bridge, Monroe, Georgia

Adriane Harden

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 On July 28, 2012, Georgia State Representative and President of GABEO (Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials) Tyrone Brooks and activist from around the country will participate in the 8^th Annual Reenactment of the Lynchings at the Moore’s Ford Bridge.  The event commemorates the murders of black sharecroppers George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom, who were murdered on July 25, 1946, at the Moore's Ford Bridge at the Walton-Oconee county line.   The case has never been solved. GABEO has held the reenactment — which dramatizes the event at the bridge, with a group of white men pulling the two couples out of a car at the bridge, taking them down an embankment and then firing over a hundred bullets at them at close range.  One of the victims was 7 months pregnant and the infant was cut from the mother’s stomach and killed.  Each year since 2005, Elected officials with the group say they will continue to do so until the crime is solved.   In 2001, former Governor Roy Barnes commissioned the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to re-open the case. In 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation became involved, and in 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Emmett Till Act allocating funding to help solve crimes such as the Emmett Till murder in Mississippi in 1955 and the Moore's Ford Bridge Lynchings.

Robert Howard, of Social Circle, who has devoted much of his life to getting the case solved, and has narrated the reenactment each year. 

It is believed that those that participated in the murders are still alive and living in Walton County.  The case remains open, and there is a $35,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of anyone found guilty of these murders. Anyone with information is asked to contact the GBI at 404-244-2600 or the FBI at 404-679-9000.

Below is information on the event:

Remembering Victims of Lynchings Throughout the USA
Saturday, July 28, 2012, 12 Noon
First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street, Monroe, GA 30655
(at Highway 11, Across from Church’s Chicken)

Schedule

12 Noon - Church opens for meditation and prayers for justice.

1 p.m. - Pre-Reenactment rally. Invited guest speakers will include national and local Civil/Human Rights activists, clergy and political peaders.

Narrator, Mr. Robert Howard, Walton County Director, Min. Cassandra Greene, Director Ms. Hattie Lawson, Chair, Athens Area Human Relations Council

Reenactment Timeline

3:00 p.m. - Leave First African Baptist Church for visitation of the Malcom and Dorsey gravesites.

4:45 p.m. - Arrive at the farm house of Barney Hester, 2932 Hester Town Road. (This is where the altercation occurred leading to the arrest of Roger Malcom, Sunday, July 14, 1946.)

5 p.m. - Leave Barney Hester’s House

5:15 p.m. - Arrive at the Old County Jail, 203 Milledge Avenue, Downtown Monroe. (This is where Roger Malcom was held for 11 days.)

5:30 p.m. - Leave the jail en route to the Moore’s Ford Bridge. (This is the exact time that Loy Harrison, a white farmer, took the Malcoms and the Dorseys from the jail and delivered them to the KKK lynch mob waiting at the Moore’s Ford Bridge.)

6 p.m. - Arrive at the Moore’s Ford Bridge for the Reenactment Ceremony and Call for Justice: Arrest and Prosecution Now!!

7 p.m. - Benediction at the historic memorial marker dedicated to the legacy of Roger and Dorothy Malcom (and Justice, unborn infant) and George and Mae Murray Dorsey.
Here’s a Challenge to Us All to Continue Our Quest and Pursuit of Justice.

Information

Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching is the last unsolved mass lynching in U.S. History!

$35,000 Reward for info that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the killers.

If you have information of the lynchings, please contact: The GBI – 404-244-2600 or the FBI – 404-679-9000. For more information contact: Rep. Tyrone Brooks, President, Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, 404-656-6372 or 404-372-1894, Cassandra Greene, Director 770-899-7424, or visit our Web site: www.ga-gabeo.org.