Mattie Green, a 32-year-old mother of six, died from the impact of a bomb that exploded under her family's home on May 19, 1960, in Ringgold. Her husband and son were both injured in the explosion. Although Gov. Ernest Vandiver posted a $500 reward for
In a 2010 letter from the FBI to Alphonso Harris's surviving family, an investigation determined that Harris died in an altercation at an Albany club. The FBI told the Harris family that his death did not appear to be racially motivated, so was not under
Police officer Billy Carter shot Ernest Hunter in a physical altercation at the Camden County jail in St. Mary’s on Sept. 13, 1958. Carter had arrested Hunter for getting involved when Carter pulled over Hunter's wife, Vernell Hunter, for a traffic violation. A coroner's jury
James Andrew Miller, 19, was shot and killed by John Lo Whitaker, 44, on Aug. 30, 1964, following a confrontation that occurred during overnight racial tensions in Jackson, Butts County. The day before, some whites had beaten Miller, the Jackson Progress-Argus reported at the time.
Willie Joe Sanford's decomposed body was pulled out of Limestone Creek in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, on March 1, 1957, after it had been in the water for nearly a month, trussed to underwater growth. His head had been struck with a sharp instrument and his
The infamous killing of the Malcoms and the Dorseys, two couples, later became known as the "Monroe Massacre" or the "Lynching at Moore's Ford Bridge." The two couples were sharecroppers on the farm of J. Loy Harrison. Harrison drove a pregnant Dorothy Malcom and the
A month before his death on May 21, 1948, Isaac Crawford of Augusta had been arrested for public drunkenness. He was sentenced to laboring in ditches at the Richmond County Stockade. While working in a ditch, he spotted a rattlesnake and asked Stockade Warden David
Police Chief James Mitchell Bohannon of Summit, Eamuel County, shot and killed Army Corporal Willie Lee Davis at a juke joint on July 3, 1943. Davis, 26, had been on a two-week-long Army furlough and was visiting his mother. Bohannon, apparently responding to a call
Caleb Hill Jr. of Irwinton was pulled from Wilkinson County jail in the middle of the night on May 30, 1949, and was shot to death by a lynch mob. Sheriff George Hatcher had arrested Hill for stabbing another black man. According to Hatcher, Hill
On Nov. 20, 1948, Robert "Duck" Mallard was driving to his home in Lyons, Toombs County with his wife, son, and two relatives when his car was stopped by a group of about twenty men wearing white robes. When Mallard's wife, Amy, recognized one of
