We remember George Dorsey & his wife, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcolm & his wife, Dorothy Malcolm and their unborn child:

⚠On this Memorial Day, let's remember George Dorsey & his wife, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcolm & his wife, Dorothy Malcolm and their unborn child: 

👉🏿George W. Dorsey survived World War II but not Jim Crow.👈🏿⚠

July 25, 1946, two young African American married couples were shot and lynched near the Moore's Ford Bridge spanning the Apalachee River, 60 miles east of Atlanta.

George W. Dorsey was a veteran of World War II, had been back home less than 9 months after serving nearly 5 years in the Pacific War. He was with his wife Mae Murray Dorsey.

Roger Malcolm and his wife Dorothy Malcolm (born July 25, 1926), who was 7 months pregnant. They were accosted by a mob of white men as they headed to their home.

J. Loy Harrison, a Caucasian man, employed the two young couples as sharecroppers on his farm. Malcolm had been jailed for having stabbed Barnette Hester, a Caucasian man, 11 days prior.

Harrison drove Dorothy Malcolm and the Dorseys to Monroe and personally posted the $600 bail for Roger Malcolm to be freed on bail. Malcolm's victim was still hospitalized. As Harrison drove the two couples from the jail back to the farm, at 5:30 p.m. the car was stopped at the bridge by an armed gang numbering between 15-20 people.

According to Loy Harrison:

"A big man who was dressed mighty proud in a double-breasted brown suit was giving the orders. He pointed to Roger and said, 'We want that n*gger.' Then he pointed to George Dorsey, my n*gger, and said, 'We want you, too, Charlie.' I said, 'His name ain't Charlie, he's George.' Someone said 'Keep your damned big mouth shut. This ain't your party."

Silently Harrison watched. One of the women identified an assailant, and the mob took the women to a big oak tree and tied them beside their husbands. The mob fired 3 point-blank volleys.

The coroner's estimate counted 60 shots fired at close range.

One of the men was also castrated.

THE FBI:

After the FBI interviewed nearly 3000 people in their 6-month investigation, they issued 100 subpoenas. The investigation received little cooperation, no one confessed, and perpetrators were offered alibis for their whereabouts.

No one was indicted for the crime and the FBI found little physical evidence.

After hearing nearly 3 weeks of testimony, the grand jury was "unable to establish the identity of any persons guilty of violating the civil rights statute of the United States."

INVESTIGATION:

Files released in 2007 reveal that the FBI investigated suspicions that the three-term governor of Georgia, Eugene Talmadge, sanctioned the murders to sway rural white voters during a tough election campaign.