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There’s a historical marker near Moore’s Ford Bridge in Georgia that commemorates the deaths of four Black Americans who were lynched on July 25, 1946: George Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcom and Dorothy Malcom. There’s another number that isn’t as easy to fit onto a historical marker: 2,790. That’
I’ve been concerned about the reports of Black people found hanging recently. Some of these deaths were quickly described as suicides. While I understand that Black people do die by suicide, including by hanging, I struggle with that explanation because of the history behind lynchings.
