Historians and headlines label certain lynchings -- say, Moore's Ford or the 1981 Ku Klux Klan slaying of 19-year-old Michael Donald in Alabama -- as the last. She also sees links between today's violence and the sharecroppers' 1946 deaths known as the Moore's Ford lynchings. Pitch, who died last year, wrote a book on Moore's Ford called "The Last Lynching." (In 2007, an elderly white woman in Walton County told a CNN journalist reporting on Moore's Ford to leave those "poor people" alone. "The fear and terror continues to stalk the land near where the four bodies were found near the Moore's Ford bridge," Bell said.