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Page A2 œi'e|Jn rtlan b (Observer luly 27, 2005 Georgia Lynching Reenacted by Activists to com e forward. according to an FBI report. The “ You know who you are, and farmer was spared. God knows who you are,” Jackson On Monday, a crowd of about shouted. “The police will not turn 200 watched as the lynchings of the you in and the prosecutors will not D o rse y s and M alcom s w ere pursue you, but the blood of the brought to life. The men fought as lynched cries out.” the women pleaded for their lives. Roger and Dorothy Malcom and Dorothy Malcom, who was preg George and Mae Murray Dorsey nant, wrapped her arms over her were ridingwithawhite farmer when unborn child. they were killed on July 25,1946, a No one was ever charged in the few days after Roger Malcom got lynchings, even though the F B I’s into a fight with a white man. The report nam ed 55 suspects. State mob forced them out of the car, R ep. T y ro n e B rooks said he dragged them down a wagon trail know s o f tw o living in W alton about 50 yards from a bridge over C ounty, and a few others outside the Apalachee River and shot them, Georgia. Deaths unsolved after 59 years (A P) - C ivil rights activists “ My grandmother lived in that marked the 5*>th anniversary of an era,” Lewis-Johnson said. "She’d unsolved lynching Monday by re be scared to talk about this, even enacting the brutal slayings of two as an old woman. It’s a hurting black couples who were forced out feeling.” Activists said they staged the of their car by a mob o f white men and killed. re-enactment to gain support for The scene was recreated with the prosecution of anyone who black volunteers acting as Ku Klux may have been involved in what Klansmen, fireworks for gunshots they called the last mass public and fake blood poured on foreffect. lynching in the United States. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who Lakeitha Lewis-Johnson. 30. cried during the re-enactment and joined religious and civil rights turned away from the shouts of the leaders at the rally, called for ju s tice and urged those responsible Kian leader. A group waits tied up in the woods Monday as they prepare for a re-enactment o f the 19 4 6 lynching at the M oore's Ford Bridge outside Monroe, Ga. Unions Split, More Defections Possible Scotland Yard released photos o f the four suspects connected with the latest series o f bombings in London. Attacks Won’t Change Policy British Muslims fear discrimination (AP)-Prime MinisterTony Blair said Tuesday that Britain would not “give one inch" to terrorists on his policy on Iraq and the Middle East, while police said two sus pects in last week’s failed bomb ings were emigrants from Somalia and Eritrea. Blair made his comments after a rare meeting with opposition party leaders to discuss new anti-terror legislation aimed at preventing a repeat of the attacks and the July 7 suicide bombings that killed 56 people, including four attackers. A sked w hether the B ritish- backed and U.S.-led invasion of Iraq had fueled terrorist attacks around the world and in London, Blair said “there was no excuse of justification” for their actions of’ the bombers. But a new poll showed that a majority of British Muslims sur veyed believe Blair’s decision to join the U.S.-led war in Iraq was one of the reasons behind the bomb-: ings. The poll also said about two- thirds of Muslims surveyed after the bombings said they had thought about moving away from Britain because o f fear o f reprisals and discrimination. (A P) - T w o unions representing 3.2 m illion w orkers - the T eam sters and the Service E m ployees International U nion - bolted from the A FL -C IO on M onday. F urther defections w ere possible. The exodus cam e in a dispute over w hat d issidents see as A FL-C IO President John S w een ey ’s inability to halt declining m em bership and over the future direction o f the labor m ovem ent. C ritics say the union should shift its em phasis from electoral po litics to finding new members. Because the A FL -C IO has played such a m ajor role in supporting D em ocrats over the years, the rift is p ro d u c ing unease am ong top D em ocrats w ho have seen the control o f both C ongress and the W hite H ouse slip from them in recent years. Sw eeney called the defections and boycott o f this w e e k ’s A FL -C IO convention in C hicago by the U nited Food and Commercial Workers union and "U N ITE H ERE” - a “grievous insult to all the un io n s.” L abor officials expect UFCW and U nite Here to leave the A FL -C IO later. P rior to M onday’s split, the A FL -C IO had 13 m illion m embers. “UNITE HERE” union executive Edgar Romey (far left) is congratulated by other union representa tives after on press conference Sunday in Chicago announcing a spilt from the AFL-CIO. (AP photo) NAACP Asks for Scrutiny of Bush Pick Nomination of conservative casts doubt Senate to get memos that were drafted by Rob clear answers erts when he worked in the Reagan on w here and Bush Sr. White House and the Ju d g e R ob U.S. Justice Department. erts stands on In nominating Roberts, President issu e s such Bush moves away from diversity The National Association for as equal op- on the high court. With the retire the Advancement o f Colored p o r t u n i t y ment o f Justice O ’Connor, there People expressed serious con Hilary Shelton programs (in will be only one woman justice. cern over President Bush’s nomi cluding Affirmative Action), crimi “We had hoped President Bush nation of W ashington. D.C. Circuit nal justice and juvenile justice is would nominate a consensus nomi Court Judge John Roberts to re sues, continuing inequities in pub nee similar to Justice O 'C onnor,” place U. S. Supreme Court Justice lic education, housing discrimina said Shelton. “W e do n ’t know Sandra Day O ’Connor. tion, freedom o f speech, voting where Roberts stands on crucial The NAACP urged the Senate to rights and the death penalty, espe legal and constitutional issues.” insist that Roberts is forthcoming cially for the mentally retarded or The NAACP is asked its mem during his confirmation hearings juvenile offenders,” said Hilary bers to write their senators to make on questions about states’ rights, Shelton, Director of the NAACP sure that these difficult questions individual rights, affirmative action, Washington Bureau. are asked of someone who has a women’srightsand workers’ rights. Moreover. 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