The Fight Against Lynching: Anti-Lynching Work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Year Nineteen EighteenNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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The Fight Against Lynching: Anti-Lynching Work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Year Nineteen Eighteen
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Lynching
_Negroes_
"Attacks on white women" 13
"Attacks on colored women" 1
"Living with white woman" 1
"Too revolting to publish" 2
"Shooting and killing officer of law" 10
"Murder of civilian" 14
"Shooting and wounding" 4
"Conspiracy to avenge killing of relative" 6
"Accomplice in murder" 3
"Aiding mob victim in attempt to escape" 1
"Intent to rob and kidnap" 1
"Quarrel with employer" 1
"Creating disturbance" 1
"Stealing hogs" 3
"Unknown" 2
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_Whites_
"Disloyal utterances" 2
"Murder" 2
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SPECIAL FEATURES OF LYNCHINGS
Five of the Negro victims have been women. Two colored men were burned at
the stake before death; four Negroes were burned after death; three
Negroes, aside from those burned at the stake, were tortured before death;
in one case the victim's dead body was carried into town on the running
board of an automobile and thrown into a public park where "it was viewed
by thousands;" one Negro victim was captured and handed to the officers of
the law by Negroes themselves. A mother and her five children were lynched
by a Texas mob, the mother having been shot as she was attempting to drag
the bodies of her four dead sons from their burning home at daybreak, the
house (only a cabin) having been fired by the mob. The crime in this case
was "alleged conspiracy to avenge" the killing of another son by officers
who had come to arrest him for "evading the draft law." This latter case
has not been classified as a lynching.
Most atrocious of all, so far as the community was concerned, was the five
days' orgy in Brooks and Lowndes Counties, which has been made the occasion
for special publicity and special efforts by the Association, to which
reference is made on page 9 of this report. In that case the particularly
vicious brutality of the mob went beyond what one is prepared to expect
from Georgia mobs--and one expects a good deal in the way of "cruel and
unusual punishments" from them. The horrible cruelties visited upon Mary
Turner, an eight month's pregnant woman, are recited in the investigation
published of our investigator's findings.[8]
In two cases the lynchings were carried out in the court house yard and in
one of these picture post card photos were sold on the streets at 25 cents
each.
TAKEN FROM PEACE OFFICERS AND JAILS
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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