Justice for Justice Malcom
RE-ENACTMENT: A pregnant Dorothy Malcom is taken to her death.
The last public lynching in America took place 62 years ago near Atlanta, but the quest for justice continues.
Dorothy Malcom was seven months pregnant on July 25, 1946 when she, her husband Roger, and another couple, George and Mae Murray Dorsey, were lynched at Moore’s Ford Bridge near Monroe. Sixty-two years later, the unborn baby received a name – Justice Malcom.
The surviving members of the Malcom family adopted the name at the rally preceding the fourth annual re-enactment of the lynching Friday. The name reflects the need for justice in the last public lynching case in America, says Georgia Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D. Atlanta. The case remains unsolved.