Georgia police chief to apologize for black man's 1940 lynching
Source: Reuters
26 JAN 2017 AT 16:39 ET
The police chief of a small Georgia city will publicly apologize on Thursday for the lynching of a young black man almost 77 years ago, an official gesture historians say is rare in the U.S. South.
Austin Callaway was abducted by a mob of white men from the jail in LaGrange, Georgia, in September 1940, driven into the woods and shot to death, said the city’s current police chief, Louis Dekmar.
Callaway, thought to be about 18, had been jailed on allegations he assaulted a white woman.
Police in LaGrange, 70 miles (112 km) southwest of Atlanta, never investigated Callaway’s death or kept a record of the mob breaking into the jail and overwhelming the lone guard, Dekmar said.
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