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| Title | : | The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1510701753 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
Compelling Story of a Hideous and Historical Crime It is not possible to read this account of a lynching in postwar Georgia without feeling a burning sense of anger with each passing page. On a summer day in 19Compelling Story of a Hideous and Historical Crime zorba It is not possible to read this account of a lynching in postwar Georgia without feeling a burning sense of anger with each passing page. On a summer day in 1946 four black people (one of them a decorated WWII vet) were lynched near the Moore's Ford bridge in a small Georgia farming community. The deed aroused strong national attention, particularly drawing the personal attention of President Harry Truman and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The scene shortly was over-run by local and state investigators plus a plethora of FBI agents. You would think such a formidable law response would produce the murderer. 6 four black people (one of them a decorated WWII vet) were lynched near the Moore's Ford bridge in a small Georgia farming community. The deed aroused strong national attention, particularly drawing the personal attention of President Harry Truman and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The scene shortly was over-run by local and state investigators plus a plethora of FBI agents. You would think such a formidable law response would produce the murderer. Good read Reuben S. Richardson Good read
While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.. Pitch reveals the true story behind the last mass lynching in America in unprecedented detail. Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation’s history than the gruesome lynchings that took place between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims. And although the crime reverberated through the troubled community, the corrupt courts, and eventually the whole world, many details remained unexploreduntil now.In The Last Lynching, An
The four African American victims had no constitutional protections, due process of law, mercy, or witnesses. It was a cold-blooded massacre that must never happen again.” Nadine Strossen, immediate past president, American Civil Liberties Union. "The Last Lynching delivers an eye-opening reminder of ongoing bigotry." KirkusPitch (The Burning of Washington) makes good use of almost 10,000 official documents from the FBI and the National Archives to reconstruct the tragic events that led to the 1946 murders of four African-Americans on a bridge in rural GeorgiaThe history of the push for federal anti-lynching laws, the racist opposition to such legislation in Congress, and current attempts to commemorate the tragedy place the narrative of the probe in a broader
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