Activists suspect cover-up after files into 1946 Georgia lynching destroyed | US news | The Guardian
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All records from a grand jury inquiry into America’s last mass lynching have disappeared or been destroyed, US government lawyers have disclosed, reigniting allegations from civil rights activists that the perpetrators have been protected by an establishment cover-up.
In a little-noticed filing to a federal court in Georgia, the Department of Justice said no transcripts had survived from hearings on the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching of July 1946, which the FBI has been investigating more recently after receiving a list of potential suspects.