Bert Moore and Dooley Morton were lynched near Columbus, Mississippi in 1935, after being accused of harrassing a white woman. This photograph of the gruesome scene by Otis N. Pruitt was then used three decades later by SNCC to emphasize the ongoing civil rights issues in Mississippi. Discussed in Raiford, "Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle," page 20.
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