July 1946

At Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton County, Georgia, a white mob of 15-20 men drags two Black couples — George and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcom — from a car and executes them with a volley of gunfire. Mae Dorsey and Dorothy Malcom are pregnant. One assailant reportedly calls Dorothy by name, indicating the killers are known community members. An FBI investigation names 15-20 suspects but a grand jury refuses to indict anyone. The case remains officially unsolved.

At Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton County, Georgia, a white mob of 15-20 men drags two Black couples — George and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcom — from a car and executes them with a volley of gunfire. Mae Dorsey and Dorothy Malcom are pregnant. One assailant reportedly calls Dorothy by name, indicating the killers are known community members. An FBI investigation names 15-20 suspects but a grand jury refuses to indict anyone. The case remains officially unsolved.

Maceo Snipes of Taylor County, Georgia is the only Black person to vote in the July 1946 Democratic primary. The following day, four white men shoot him on his porch. He dies two days later. A note left at a local Black church reads: 'The first Negro to vote will be the last.' No one is prosecuted. His murder illustrates the lethal consequences of attempting to exercise voting rights in the post-WWII South.