Georgia Anti-Lynching Memorial
In respectful memory of the thousands across America, denied justice by lynching; victims of hatred, prejudice, and ignorance. Between 1880-1946, ~570 Georgians were lynched….
Lynching in America / The Lynching of Dennis Hubert
On the evening of June 15, 1930, a mob of seven white men lynched a young Black man named Dennis Hubert on the playground of Atlanta’s segregated Crogman School for Black children. Dennis Hubert was 18 years old and a Divinity School student in his sophomore year at Morehouse College…
Lynching in America / Lynching in Bulloch County
From 1886 to 1911, white mobs lynched at least nine Black people in Bulloch County. Suspicion alone-even in the absence of evidence or due process-caused many white people to presume a Black person’s guilt. On July 15, 1886, a white mob abducted Jake Braswell following the alleged assault of a…
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn and the Civil Rights Act
On the night of July 11, 1964 three African-American World War II veterans returning home following training at Ft. Benning, Georgia were noticed in Athens by local members of the Ku Klux Klan. The officers were followed to the nearby Broad River Bridge where their pursuers fired into the vehicle,…
Mary Turner and the Lynching Rampage of 1918
Near this site on May 19, 1918, twenty-one year old Mary Turner, eight months pregnant, was burned, mutilated, and shot to death by a local mob after publicly denouncing her husband’s lynching the previous day. In the days immediately following the murder of a white planter by a black employee…
Moore’s Ford Lynching Historical Marker
2.4 miles east, at Moore’s Ford Bridge on the Apalachee River, four African-Americans – George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Dorsey Malcom (reportedly 7 months pregnant) – were brutally beaten and shot by an unmasked mob on the afternoon of July 25, 1946. The lynching followed an…