By Jazmin Murphy for Yes! Magazine.Broadcast version by Brett Peveto for North Carolina News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration In Monroe, Georgia, on July 31, 1946, The Savannah Tribune reported a “mass lynching,” in which a “mob of 20 or more men, who lined up two Negro men and their wives in the woods … shot them to death.” This horrific practice was as uniquely American in the 1940s as mass shootings are today. The consistency with which they occurred in natural spaces, especially in the South, maintains lasting effects on how African Americans engage with the outdoors. ...
