The murders of four black men by a white mob in rural Georgia in 1946 were a late period lynching that sparked major protests in the United States. A white farmer, J. Loy Harrison, who resided in Walton County, employed two young black couples as farmhands. The first was George Dorsey and his wife Mae. George was a 28 year old World War II veteran. Mae was 23. The other couple were Roger and Dorothy Malcom, ages 24 and 20, respectively. Dorothy was well along in a pregnancy in summer 1946.Loy Harrison was also a known supporter of Georgia's notorious Dixiecrat ex-governor Eugene Talmadge, a virulent racist who boasted at campaign rallies of having personally flogged a couple of black farmhands back when he was a young man. Talmadge was attempting to regain the governor's seat and in a difficult primary fight against opponent James Carmichael, suggesting that Georgian voters were looking for new blood.Roger Malcom was accused of stabbing a white man named Barnette Hester on July 11. He was arrested and booked into the Walton County jail. Eugene Talmadge was reportedly seen talking to Barnette Hester's brother George and promising clemency to "anyone who could take care of the Negro."
On July 25, Harrison drove Dorothy Malcom and the Dorseys to the jail to pay Roger's $600 bail. After Roger was released, the five headed back to the farm. Around 5:30 PM in the afternoon, he encountered a mob of around 20 armed white men blocking the bridge at Moore's Ford. As he recalled, "A big man who was dressed mighty proud in a double-breasted brown suit was giving the orders. He pointed to Roger Malcom and said, 'We want that nigger.' Then he pointed to George Dorsey, my nigger, and said, 'We want you, too, Charlie.' I said, 'His name ain't Charlie; he's George.' Someone said 'Keep your damned big mouth shut. This ain't your party.'" Someone from the mob said "they should get" the two black women while they were at it. All four were taken to a large oak tree and riddled with gunfire. An estimated 60 rounds were fired into them.Mass protests erupted in Washington D.C. and New York City. President Truman ordered the Justice Department to investigate. After four months, the FBI announced that it could find no evidence to file Federal civil rights charges. Truman was also unable to secure the passage of a Federal lynching bill over the opposition of Dixiecrat Congressmen. On July 28, a funeral for the Dorseys and Dorothy Malcom was held at the Mount Perry Baptist Church. As George Dorsey was a veteran, his coffin was draped in an American flag. The funeral was well attended by the national news media, although many blacks stayed away out of fear One black man at the funeral told a journalist from The Chicago Defender: "They're exterminating us. They're killing Negro veterans and we don't have nothing to fight back with except our bare hands."
Writing in The New Republic, H. William Fitelson found several strange things about the Moore's Ford murders that didn't seem to add up or make sense. Roger Malcom's $600 bail (about $9,000 in 2020 dollars) seemed awfully low for the crime committed. Also why did Harrison spend that money to bail him when he could have hired another black farmhand for less money? Why did he drive with Mae, George, and Dorothy along a rural back road instead of a main highway unless it was with the knowledge that there would be no witnesses to the lynching there? Furthermore, the mob seemed to know exactly when Harrison's car would show up at that spot.That Eugene Talmadge, who died of alcoholism at the end of the year, was indirectly responsible for the murders is not much in doubt; historian Robert Pratt said that the extreme racial rhetoric of his gubernatorial campaign surely influenced events, and Talmadge was "without a doubt one of the most racist governors Georgia ever had."Governor Ellis Arnall offered $10,000 for any advice leading to the arrest of members of the mob; no one came forward. The FBI's investigation also proved a wash as they could find no one willing to talk or say anything they knew. Black witnesses were of little more use than white ones; FBI agents could not get any information out of them as most feared for their lives if they talked. Walton County residents were also described in the FBI's report as being "clannish, poorly educated, and distrustful of people from outside their tight-knit community." NAACP lawyer and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said "I have no faith at all in [J. Edgar Hoover] or anyone at the FBI." In the end no one was ever tried for the murders.
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