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MONROE, Ga. (AP) - Where the old Moore's Ford bridge once stood, there are no reminders of the atrocities committed here almost 59 years ago — other than a crude, black "KKK" spray-painted on the underside of a modern bridge nearby.
In 1946, a white mob pulled four black sharecroppers from a car near the river's banks, dragged them down a wagon trail and shot them to death. Now, dozens of politicians, activists and relatives of the victims are pressing a local prosecutor to use the FBI's original investigation to seek indictments against the few surviving suspects in the deaths of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey.
"This," declared state Rep. Tyrone Brooks of Atlanta, "was the most heinous collective crime ever perpetuated against African-Americans in this state."
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