Black History | FBI investigates claim suspects in 1946 Georgia mass lynching may be alive

[sheshe2]

US authorities are investigating whether some of those responsible for one of the American south’s most notorious mass lynchings are still alive, in an attempt to finally bring prosecutions over the brutal unsolved killings.

FBI agents have questioned a man in Georgia about the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching of 1946, the man told the Guardian. The man was among several in their 80s and 90s named in connection with the incident on a list given to the US Department of Justice by civil rights activists.

Speaking at his home in Monroe, 10 miles west of the lynching site, Charlie Peppers denied taking part in the killings of four African Americans who were tied up and shot 60 times by a white mob.

An outraged President Harry Truman ordered a federal investigation and rewards totalling $12,500 – worth more than $150,000 today – were offered for information leading to a conviction. A grand jury was convened and heard evidence for three weeks. Yet no indictments were brought for the killings, which have long been linked to the Ku Klux Klan.

Read More: http://3chicspolitico.com/2015/02/20/black-history-fbi-investigates-claim-suspects-in-1946-georgia-mass-lynching-may-be-alive/

[randys1]

1. Oh stop it, that was hundreds of years ago (oops, not)...We are a completely perfect country now and

there is no racism.

Next you are going to say it is racist when Governors wag their fingers in the Black presidents face, or house members yell out "lliar" during the SOU, something that has never happened before.

Black people, so touchy

[sheshe2]

2. I got the sarcasm without the tag Randys...

However, good you added it.

Thanks good post.

[randys1]

3. Thanks...As a white person i cannot imagine my attitude if all that was a part of

my personal history.

Not history history, but practically YESTERDAY history.

You think I am pissed now