01291cam a2200265 4500 2827014 TxAuBib 20080201120000.0 240603s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780684868165 hbk. : alk. paper 0684868164 hbk. : alk. paper (OCoLC)50028615 TxAuBib Wexler, Laura, 1971- Fire in a canebrake : the last mass lynching in America / Laura Wexler. New York : Scribner, 2003. 271 p. ; 22 cm. July 25, 1946. In Walton County, Georgia, a mob of white men commit one of the most heinous racial crimes in America's history: the shotgun murder of four black sharecroppers—two men and two women—at Moore's Ford Bridge. Fire in a Canebrake, the term locals used to describe the sound of the fatal gunshots, is the story of our nation's last mass lynching on record. More than a half century later, the lynchers' identities still remain unknown. 20080201. Lynching Georgia Walton County Case studies. Mass murder Case studies. African Americans Crimes against. Walton County (Ga) Race relations. TXMOO