On January 22, 1976, cattle ranch worker Gordon Howell was shot to death in a one-room grocery store. The store was just six miles east of Dawson, a rural town in southwest Georgia. It was believed through testimony, that Howell was shot by a group of young African-American men who arrived at the store that […]
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