Gov. Eugene Talmadge (left) at a clemency hearing
Gov. Eugene Talmadge (left) at a clemency hearing for six East Point Ku Klux Klansmen. Dec. 1, 1941. Prosecutor Daniel Duke brandishes bull whip used on the African American victims. Talmadge, while feeling sorry for the Klansmen, did not grant clemency to the six men serving 1-3 year prison sentences for a series of floggings in suburban Atlanta. Talmadge added he participated in a similar flogging of an African-American man years before. (BSLOC_2014_13_53)
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