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Moores Ford Lynching

ssion on race, desegregation of the military and passage of and anti lynching legislation (Jordon, 36).With the goal of prosecuting any living person who is found to have been involved as a accomplice in the murders of Roger Malcom, Dorothy Malcom, her unborn child, George Dorsey and Mae Murray Dorsey is the purpose of finding evidence to put an end to this tragic incident (Ford,2). Due to the fact that investigators were completely oblivious to the evidence that was clear in front of their faces has kept this case going on for over fifty years now. Whites had so much power over everyone in town during this period of time that justice became almost impossible to come by for murder cases such as this. “The way I look at it, they say they did it ‘cause they knew nothing was going to be done about it.” Investigator Bobby Howard said. It is quite obvious that Harrison was the organizer of the lynching case that has left Walton County Georgia with little answers to complete the truth, but enough evidence to know he is the sole perpetrator. The facts that conclude this to be in truth Hunter 5are, first, he completely changed his mind about picking Roger Malcom up within minutes as if the situation had already been arranged along with the fact that he took three other African Americans in relations with Roger Malcom. Secondly, Harrison took a long route home, which was uncommonly taken for people at this time. The fact that a long the way he was stopped by a dozen men on a bridge fully loaded with weapons and he was the only one not murdered in the car leads to suspicion. Harrison was a white man and this could be an answer to why he was not killed. If Harrison did not have anything to do with these murders then he would have been killed also due to the fact that he could have told police investigators evidence to the murder. Thirdly, if Harrison laid down $600 to get a black person out of jail, which was not...

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