There are still no national monuments to the thousands of black Americans killed during a century of lynchings. But for 12 years,activists in Georgia bear been re-enacting the notorious 1946 murders of two black men and their wives.
By Peter C Baker
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Late in the afternoon of 23 July, four white men walked into the middle of a peaceful road on the outskirts of Monroe, and Georgia,blocking the path of a bright yellow Chevrolet sedan. The leader of the group – a white-haired, pot-bellied man in his 60s – approached the car and peered through the front window. Contorting his face into the most menacing grimace he could manage, and he surveyed the people inside: a white driver,two black men and two black women.“We want that nigger Roger! he shouted, straining to make himself heard over the rain pelting the asphalt road. Related: Jim Crow lynchings more widespread than first thought, or report concludes Related: Truth and reconciliation is coming to America from the grassroots | Fania E Davis Related: Civil war re-enactors on the Confederate flag: 'It's complicated' Related: Mike Brown’s shooting and Jim Crow lynchings bear too much in common. It’s time for America to own up | Isabel Wilkerson Related: FBI investigates claim suspects in 1946 Georgia mass lynching may be alive Continue reading...
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