THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 27, 1946 

* Moore's Ford Bridge Negro lynchings 
* Near Monroe, Walton County, Georgia 
* George W. Dorsey & Roger Malcolm (& wives)
* Last mass lynching in United States 

Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading: "Georgia Mob of 20 Menb Massacres 2 Negroes, Wives; One Was Ex-GI" (see images) More on the back page.
Complete with all 32 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.

Background: The Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings of July 25, 1946, represent a harrowing turning point in American history, serving as the "last mass lynching" and a primary catalyst for the federal government's involvement in civil rights. The event involved the brutal execution of four African Americans—World War II veteran George W. Dorsey, his wife Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcom, and his pregnant wife Dorothy Dorsey Malcom—who were intercepted by a mob of roughly 30 unmasked white men while being driven home from the Walton County jail. Despite the victims being shot over 60 times at point-blank range, a local "wall of silence" prevented any of the 55 identified suspects from being indicted, an injustice that horrified the nation and compelled President Harry S. Truman to take unprecedented action. Truman’s subsequent creation of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights and his push for federal anti-lynching legislation marked the first time the executive branch treated racial violence as a federal emergency, effectively signaling the transition from the era of unchecked Jim Crow violence to the organized, federally-monitored Civil Rights Movement.