History of Lynching in the Southern United States

In the book`Fire in a Canebrake` , Laura Wexler talks of the lynching of the two African American couples in 1946 . The two couples were murdered by the side of the road with no witnesses . Lynching was the term used when African Americans were murdered by various methods like castrating tying to a stake and burning and other methods of torture . Some of them were murdered by being shot

In this story written by Laura , all the happenings were real and all the incidents are well researched by Laura who is a journalist . She

wanted to solve this case by interviewing people at the place where the incident occurred

She realized that there were no witnesses who would come to reveal what had really happened . There is only an unconfirmed report of a white man who was a witness to the murders

In 1946 , Waldon County , Georgia was one of the places in the South where there were white supremacists . There was also widespread racial discrimination present . The African Americans were still considered to be less than equal to the whites

The incident occurred on a Sunday afternoon . Roger Malcom was a worker working for Barnette Hester . That day , he had a big fight with his wife Dorothy Dorsey . They were in the street and fighting . When the fight got out of hand and Roger Malcom tried to lunge at Dorothy , she ran into the house of Hester

The fight started a major confrontation between the landlord , his workers who were...