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The 1914 Lynchings (Harper's Weekly, 1915)A short, uncredited article written in response to a report by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) concerning a series of lynchings in 1914. There is a minute breakdown, by state, showing where each of the murders took place.
The Lynchings of 1916 (The Literary Digest, 1917)An end of the year round-up of the 1916 lynchings concentrating on the state of Georgia as the lynching champion for the second year in a row (Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri were all tied for the 1914 title).
The sub-plot for the article centers on race hatred as one factor among many which justified the "northward migration of the Negroes" which was actively in full-swing at the time this column had gone to press. Anti-Lynching Law Debated in Congress (Congressional Digest, 1922)Reproduced here are the two pages from the Congressional Digest of 1922 which are composed of both the outline of the proposed legislation as well as the debate of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
The bill, which was introduced by Representative Leonidas C. Dyer (1871 - 1957)of Missouri, was intended to make lynching a felony that would have resulted in a short prison term and a $5,000.00 fine for all guilty participants. The proposed legislation passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate. Congressional debates concerning anti-lynching would be a topic for many years to come, however, the arguments presented against passage of this bill by the Southern Representatives make an interesting read.
A History of Anti-Lynching Legislation (Congressional Digest, 1922)A very brief study of U.S. congressional anti-lynching legislation spanning the years from 1901 through 1922.
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive. The Fight Against Lynching (Current Opinion, 1919)"The first National Conference on Lynching, held recently in New York and attended by representatives of twenty-five states of the Union, has served to bring into prominence some of the efforts now being made to wipe out a national disgrace...Figures were presented at the National Lynching Conference showing that in the last thirty years 3,224 persons have been killed by lynching, 2,834 of them in Southern states which once were slave-holding." In attendance were such 1920s luminaries as Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, General John H. Sherburne, and Charles Evan Hughes. Lynch-Law in Ohio and Elsewhere (The Literary Digest, 1897)
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