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Lynching in Georgia
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Sam Hose
For more info on this lynching click hereLocation: Newnan, Ga (Coweta County)
Information: Hose was lynchged in front of a crowd of over 2,000. He was hunted down for days after being accused of killing Alfred Cranford over an issue about wages owed. Details of the killing of Granford were skewed by the media, which angered to mob even more. The lynching was given national attention with being coming miles away to witness it. -
Leo Frank
Click here for more information about this lynchingLocation: Marietta, Ga (Cobb County)
Information: Leo Frank was accused of the murder of Mary Phagan. Frank, who was Jewish and from the North, had owned a manufacturing company in Marietta. He was known for hiring African Americans to work for him, which upset a lot of people in the South during this time. After Mary Phagan was murdered many people were implicated, but Frank was finally given full responsibility. A mob took him from Milledgeville to Marietta to lynch him. -
Mary Turner
Click here for more information on this lynchingLocation: Valdosta, Ga (Lowndes County)
Information: Mary Turner's husband and others had been lynched days before Mary's lynching due to a disagreement over wages and gambling. Mary Turner went into town and publically called out all of those who were involved in her husbands lynching and it caused an uproar. Mary, who was 8 months pregnant at the time, was then taken away and lynched killing her and her unborn child. -
Moore's Ford
Click here for more information about this lynchingLocation: Monroe, Ga
Information: Four African Americans were tied up and lynched on Moore's Ford bridge in Monroe, Ga. They had been shot so many times that the bodies were unrecognizable. George Dorsey, his wife Mae Murray Dorsey, a long with Roger Malcolm and Dorothy Malcolm were the two young African American couples that were lynched. This was due to an implication that Roger Malcolm had stabbed a white man and the other three had bailed him out of jail.
