Box L.26

Scope and Contents Lynching files contain reporting, research, and other documentation of lynching, primarily in the United States. Reporting on specific incidents contemporary to the time is found between 1926 and 1960, mainly in the form of clippings, full newspaper pages, and photographs. Some writings, notes, and correspondence pertaining to specific cases are also found. Files on lynching cases contain coverage of the incidents and their aftermath, such as investigations, trials, and public debate....

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Includes photographs of petition drives, protests, and other anti-lynching organizing.

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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.