Atlanta lynching: Police officer, Klan leader Samuel Roper orchestrated Thomas Finch killing in 1936 - The Washington Post

The lynching began with a knock on the door. It was 3 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1936, a steamy late summer morning in Atlanta. Thomas Finch and his family were sound asleep. Then, the knocking. When Finch’s father opened the front door, he found five white men standing there: two police officers and three other burly men the family had never seen before. ....
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