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At Moore’s Ford Bridge on the Apalachee River, 2.4 miles east, 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 argument between Roger Malcom and a local white farmer. These unsolved murders played a crucial role in both President Truman’s commitment to civil rights legislation and the ensuing modern civil rights movement. In 1998, a biracial memorial service honoring the victims was held at Moore’s Ford Bridge.
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