ATLANTA — It was the summer of 1946 when two young black couples riding along a rural road were stopped by a white mob in Georgia at Moore’s Ford Bridge, overlooking the Apalachee River. Months of investigation yielded dozens of possible suspects. Despite all that, activists and others who spent countless hours studying the slayings and trying to raise awareness still hope answers will surface. And each July since 2005, he has helped organized a reenactment of the lynching to raise public awareness that the case remains unsolved. When people did talk, she said, she heard different versions of the circumstances surrounding the lynching, often split along racial lines.

Source: National Post February 27, 2018 16:50 UTC