Tuesday, October 14, 2008

**The last lynching part two**

The three articles speak about the murders of four young blacks and Micheal Donald.
A former anchor of "ABC News Nightline", Ted Koppel, came to Mobile, Alabama to produce a one-hour program on the discovery channel. In 1981 an African American named Josephus Anderson was charged with the murder of a white policeman in Mobile. The man got off the case because the jury couldn't find a verdict. This in turn upset members of the KKK and their was a meeting held after the trial. Bennie Hays was the second-highest ranking official in the Klan and and a nefarious man. He held the meeting and stated that "If a black man could get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a black man. The plan had been set for a random black victim to be murdered that same night. Henry Hays and James Knowles were convicted and arrested. Hays was later executed in 1997. The story of America's last mass lynching involved four young blacks; George Dorsey, Dorothy Dorsey, Malcom and Mae Murray Dorsey. The mob who killed them were really after Roger Malcom who had just been bailed out of jail for stabbing a white man while drunk. They were obviously pedantic about the situation. Roger was passing over a bridge when the killers, with no venerate, appeared and dragged his passengers out of the car. The enigma behind the murder of this case is still yet to be solved.

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