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In 1776, during the War of Independence, Charles Lynch, a revolutionary and judge, was the instigator for this parody of justice directed against those accused of treason or breaking the law. He would give his name to this form of vigilantism. The figures are damning: from the late 19th century to the 1960s, some 4,000 Black American men, women and children -practically one person a week for 80 years - were victims of lynchings...For which the perpetrators went unpunished. One lynching would receive national media coverage, stoking the anger of a part of public opinion and that of President Truman in person. On July 25, 1946, Georges Dorsey, a decorated World War II veteran, was lynched with three other persons near the town of Monroe, Georgia. After having gone to pay bail for Roger Malcolm, a black sharecropper, Dorsey went to pick him up with his wife and Malcolm's companion. A few minutes late, out in the countryside, they were stopped by a gang of white men, tied, beaten and shot. Dorsey was given a full military funeral. Then came the revelations of Clinton Adams, who was 10 years old at the time of the lynching. At the request of the governor of Georgia, the case was officially reopened in the summer of 2000.

France - 2002 - 53 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Christophe Weber Script Christophe Weber Camera Laurent Ferrari Editing Laurent Ferrari

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