Georgia police chief to apologize for 1940 lynching
When it happened, news of Austin Callaway’s killing on September 8, 1940, barely earned a mention in his hometown newspaper in LaGrange, Georgia. “Negro succumbs to shot wounds,” read the LaGrange Daily News headline, squeezed between the personal ads and a report on a church fish fry. “Dies Sunday at Hospital, Struck by Seven Bullets,” […]