If MLK is of the Moses Generation, what generation would Fredrick Douglass be of? That's some poorly played sardonic humor but meant to indicate that the fight for civil rights is not older than I thought, but foundational to the formation of the America. (Or those parts that wanted to be a part). But I just finished Ida B. Wells "Southern Horror," a short booklet under 50 pages. She was fighting for civil rights then AND investigating innocent black men who were lynched in the South in the 1890s. Eye-opening and highly recommended. She prints "both sides" of the argument: her excellent analysis of civil rights and the conservative side, reprinting the white editorials from Southern newspapers like the Memphis one. Shocking contrast. She writes in detail about some of the lynchings (Southern horrors) that the white editorial writers were pushing should happen. Here's what happened after her booklet came out around 1895 and what the federal government did to stop the murder of innocent black Americans: .

Exactly. So it went out. In the early 1930 some gruesome lynchings happened in Florida, Texas and Alabama where crowds of thousands gathered to watch the cutting, burning, and then hanging. Same MO, different states. So Georgian whites certainly have some strong competition for worst and most abusive state. The president at the time declined to step and stop it. Nice guy. I'm white supremecacy is far more systematic than I first imagined after George Floyd was killed. It is what the insurrection was all about. Best of luck and be careful out there. The best that can be hoped for is a win for Abrhams as governor to see for the first time in Southern history a black woman would rule over them.