Box L.26

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Writings on origins and history of the word lynching

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Includes a Russian postcard with note "courtesy of Langston Hughes"

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Articles addressing fear of Black people and of racial equality, and domination of white people as reason for lynchings.

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Includes the 1925 NAACP pamphlet "Women Lynched in the United States Since 1889," "The Mob Murer of S. S. Mincey" published by the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching circa 1931, and "Southern Leaders Impeach Judge Lynch: High Lights from Report of Commission on The Study of Lynching" published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta, GA.

Scope and Contents Group contains coverage of specific lynching and attempted lynching cases, including the incidents themselves, investigations and trials of participants, and editorials regarding specific cases. Most coverage is contemporary to the incident; where coverage references past incidents it is noted in the scope and content note for the folder. Lynching victims have been listed for each location, along with the specific location and year of the incident. Locations typically were transcribed from...