A United States Army post, Fort Benning, has honoured a Black soldier who was lynched in 1941.Private Felix Hall
A United States Army post, Fort Benning, has honoured a Black soldier who was lynched in 1941.
Private Felix Hall, a 19-year-old man from rural Alabama, had said goodbye to two colleagues after working a shift at the sawmill at Fort Benning. Unfortunately, he didn’t reach the post exchange where he was headed.Hall’s body was found six weeks later in a ravine near the Chattahoochee River. His hands were tied to the back, legs bound with bailing wire and had a noose around his neck.
Despite the FBI having leads and evidence, it failed to make arrests neither was the case taken seriously.reported that a civilian supervisor at the sawmill had threatened to kill Hall if he came back to work there.A plaque will soon be placed right where his body is believed to have been found. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., who has Fort Benning as part of his district led a push for a memorial for the late soldier.
“They were meant to kill the victim and frighten the [Black] community,” said Bishop, noting that Hall “was neither the first nor last African-American service member whose murder was racially motivated.”
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