[Tora] [Kindle] The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder
Rocked a Small Georgia Town
By Anthony S. Pitch
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. During
incidents of racist violence, lynchers tortured their victims before murdering them.
Most killers were never brought to justice.In 1946, the bodies of two men and two
women were found near Moore?s Ford Bridge in rural Monroe, Georgia. Their killers
were never identified. And although the crime reverberated through the troubled
community, the corrupt courts, and eventually the whole world, many details
remained unexplored?until now.In The Last Lynching, Anthony S. Pitch reveals the
true story behind the last mass lynching in America in unprecedented detail. Drawing
on some ten thousand previously classified documents from the FBI and National
Archives, The Last Lynching paints an unflinching picture of the lives of the victims,
suspects, and eyewitnesses, and describes the political, judicial, and socioeconomic
conditions that
