Indicted by a federal grand jury, longtime state representative and civil rights leader Tyrone Brooks has turned for legal advice to someone from whom he often sought help as a legislatorformer Governor Roy Barnes.
As governor, Barnes embraced Brooks’ efforts to remove from the state flag an embedded Confederate battle flag. At Brooks’ behest, Barnes reopened an investigation of the 1946 unsolved slayings of two African-American couples by a white lynch mob on Moore’s Ford Bridge near Monroe, including offering a reward. And when Brooks complained that the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors’ religious compound south of Macon was being harassed by local law enforcement authorities in 1999, Barnes stepped in privately to mediate.
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